W.P(C)No. 657 OF 1995
ITEM No.1 Part-heard          Court No. 6                 SECTION PIL
                                                          XIV & III
                                                          A/N MATTER

             S U P R E M E   C O U R T   O F   I N D I A
                        RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS


  Writ Petition(Civil) No.657/1995


  RESEARCH FOUNDN. FOR SCIENCE                              Petitioner (s)

                              VERSUS

  U O I & ANR.                                              Respondent (s)

( With Appln(s). for directions & impleading party & directions &
  exemption from filing O.T.& directions & office report)
(For final disposal)

  With
  SLP(C)No.16175/1997,C.A.No.7660/1997


  Date : 17/09/2003 These Petitions were called on for hearing
                    today.

  CORAM :
           HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
           HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.N. AGRAWAL


  For the parties :     M/s. Sanjay Parikh,Abinash K.Misra,
		     AN Singh,Advs.

                        Ms.B.Vijayalakshmi Menon,Adv.

For UOI                 M/s Sanjay R.Hegde,Rajiv Nanda,SN Terdol,Advs.

		     M/s ADN Rao,P.Parmeswaran,
                        BK Prasad,A.Subba Rao,Ajay Sharma,Advs.

                        Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Adv.

For CPCB		     Mr. Vijay Panjwani,Adv.

                        Mrs Manik Karanjawala,Adv.

                        M/s K.B. Rohtagi,Aparna R.Jain,
                        Mahesh Kasana,Advs.

For Maharashtra PCB     M/s R.C. Verma,Mukesh Verma,
                        Manish Shanker,Advs.

                        M/s Ashok Mathur,Rajesh Pathak,Advs.
                        Mr. Shakil Ahmed Syed,Adv.

For UP PCB	     M/s. Pradeep Misra,T.Mahipal,Advs.

For Tripura             M/s. Gopal Singh,Rajiv Mohapatra,Navin 			     Prakash,Advs.

For Manipur             M/s.Khwairakpam Nobin Singh,M.Gireesh Kumar,Advs.

For Bihar               M/s Sunita R.Singh, B.B. Singh,Advs.

For Arunachal P.        Mr. Anil Shrivastav,Adv.

                        Mr. Anil Kumar Tandale,Adv.

                        Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma,Adv.

                        Mr. Radha Shyam Jena,Adv.

                        Mrs Urmila Sirur,Adv.

                        Ms. Sushma Suri,Adv.

                        Mrs Anil Katiyar,Adv.
                        
For West Bengal	     M/s G.Biswal,JR Das,S.Mishra,
                        Dilip K.Sinha,Advs.for
                        M/s Sinha & Das

For Mumbai Port Trust   M/s JB Dadachanji,Buddy A.Rangnadhan,Advs.for
                        M/s J.B. Dadachanji & Co.

For Assam               M/s Krishna Sarma,Asha G.Nair,
                        VK Sidatharan,Ng.JR Luwang,Advs.for
                        M/s Corporate Law Group

For Rajasthan           M/s Ranji Thomas,Bharati Upadhyay,AK Shukla,
                        VN Raghupathy,Advs.

For Orissa PCB          M/s Janaranjan Das,G.Biswal,
                        S.Mishra,Moushami Gahlot,Advs.

                        Mr.Jayant Bhushan,Adv.

                        Mr.KK Gupta,Adv.

                        Mr.Pramod Dayal,Adv.

                        Mr.BV Balaram Das,Adv.

                        Mr.Shail Kumar Dwivedi,Adv.

For A.P.                M/s TV Ratnam,K.Subba Rao,Advs.

For Maharashtra         M/s SS Shinde,Mukesh K.Giri,Advs.

For Meghalaya           Mr.Ranjan Mukherjee,Adv.

For Sikkim              M/s A.Mariarputham,Aruna Mathur,
                        Anurag D.Mathur,Advs.for
                        M/s Arputham Aruna & Co.

For Gujarat,Mizoram,    M/s H.Wahi,Aruna Gupta,Monika Bapna,
    GPCB                Sadhna Sandhu,Advs.

For Nagaland            M/s VD Khanna,SK Shandilya,V.Hazarika,
		     Sumita Hazarika,Kamal Shankar,Advs.

                        M/s Neeraj K.Jain,Bharat Singh,
                        RS Yadav,Advs.

 For Goa                Ms.A.Subhashini,Adv.

For Pondicherry         Mr.R.Mohan,Sr.Adv. 
& W.Bengal PCB	     Mr.VG Pragasam,Adv.

                        M/s Mahesh Agrawal,Rishi Agrawal,
                        EC Agrawala,Manu Krishnan,Advs.

For H.P.                Mr.JS Attri,AAG.

For M.P. PCB            M/s SK Agnihotri,Sakesh Kumar,AK Pandey,
		     Yogmaya, Rohit K.Singh,Advs.

                        Mrs.D.Bharathi Reddy,Adv.

For U.P.		     Mr.Dinesh Dwivedi,Sr.Adv.
		     M/s Kamlendra Mishra,
		     Manoj Mishra,Rajeev K.Dubey,Advs.

		     M/s Sushil K.Jain,RK Joshi,AP Dhamija,
		     Pradeep Aggarwal,A.Mishra,Anjali Doshi,
		     Ruchi Kohli,LP Singh,AP Jain,Advs.




             UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following
                                 O R D E R


	Mr.Sanjay Parikh, learned counsel for the petitioner resumed his arguments in the morning and was on his legs when the Court rose for the day leaving the matter part-heard.
Mr.ADN Rao, learned counsel for Union of India also replied in between from time to time.


      [Naresh Kumar]	  [ S. Thapar ]         [ VP Tyagi ]
       AR-cum-PS 		  PS to Registrar       Court Master
	



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