W.P(C)No. 657 OF 1995
ITEM No.1                 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 - With appln. for ex-parte stay & impleading party
		     and intervention (For Final Disposal)
  C.A.No.7660/1997 - With Office Report (For Final Disposal)

  Date : 09/03/2004: These Petitions were called on for hearing
                     today.

  CORAM :
           HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE Y.K. SABHARWAL
           HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.B. SINHA


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

                        Ms.B.Vijayalakshmi Menon,Adv.

  For UOI               Mr.PP Malhotra,Sr.Adv.
		     M/s Sanjay R.Hegde,Rajiv Nanda,SN Terdol,Advs.

  For Union Terrotories:Mr. RK. Rathore, Adv.
		     Mr. DS. Mehra, Adv.
		     
  For JN Port Trust     Mr.Ajay Sharma,Adv.

		     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.


  For Rajasthan SPCB:   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,Anurag Sharma,Advs.

  For Manipur           Mr.Khwairakpam Nobin Singh,Adv.

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

  For Arunachal P.PCB   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 Mr.Buddy A.Rangnadhan,Adv.for
                        M/s J.B. Dadachanji & Co.

  For Assam             M/s Krishna Sarma,Sanjay CV.Choudhury,
                        VK Sidatharan,Neeraj Kumar,Advs.for
                        M/s Corporate Law Group

  For Rajasthan         Mr. Aruneshwar Gupta, Addl.Adv.Gen.
		     Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, Adv.

  For Orissa PCB        M/s Janaranjan Das,Swetaketu Mishra, 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,
                        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.

  For Karnataka PCB     M/s EC Agrawala,Rishi Agrawal,
                        Mahesh Agrawal,Advs.

  For H.P.              Mr.JS Attri,AAG
		     
  For M.P. PCB &        M/s SK Agnihotri,AK Pandey,
  State of M.P.         Rohit K.Singh,Advs.

                        Mrs.D.Bharathi Reddy,Adv.

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

  For T.Nadu	     Mr. R.Ayyam Perumal,Adv.

  For R-5:	     Mr. Chandra Kant Nayak,Adv.
		     Mr. Atishi Dipankar, Adv.

  For Royal Impex       M/s Sushila Ra,,Nikhil Nayyar,
  Noticee No.15:	     Kamakhya Srivatav, Advs.

  For Noticee No.14:    M/s S.M. Babu, DN.Mishra, Advs.

  For M/s Indochem Ltd. Mr. Tarun Gulati, Adv.
		     Ms. Vanita Bhargava, Adv.
		     Ms. Bina Gupta, Adv.

  For Noticee No.6:     Mr. SK. Dhingra, Adv.
		     Ms. Shefali Dhingra, Adv.

  		     M/s Huzefa Ahmadi, Ejaz Maqbool,
		     Nakul Dewan, Abhimeet Sinha,
		     Minakshi Nag, Gourav Kejriwal, Advs.      	


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


	The case is adjourned to 10th March, 2004.


        (S. Thapar)		               (V.P. Tyagi)
      PS to Registrar		               Court Master