Jammu and Kashmir High Court division bench heard a PIL filed in 2018 focusing one very very important aspect of public health and hygiene, which has been eluding the State of Jammu & Kashmir due to non implementation of provisions of the Solid Waste ManagementRules of 2016.
In response to the query by Uttarakhand High Court division bench that whether the said units can at all be run in a residential area, counsel for for the Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board , Roorkee stated that the units cannot be run in a residential area.
The petitioner in Uttarakhand High Court claimed that Private Respondents run their recycling plants in a residential area without obtaining requisite permission/consent of the State Pollution Control Board and other authorities leading to toxic pollution and grave hazard to the lives of the residents.
A single-judge bench of while hearing a petition filed by Sohanveer issued contempt notices to the District Magistrates of Bulandshahr and Gautam Budh Nagar for illegally operating brick kilns in violation of environmental norms in NCR.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State Pollution Control Board, Jabalpur to carry out inspection to check whether pollution caused by the private respondent from their mines is being maintained within the permissible norms.
The petitioner stated in the PIL that it is a settled proposition of law that right of religious organisations to use loud-speaker or amplifier is not an independent right under Article 25 of the Constitution