ITEM NO.4 COURT NO.4 SECTION PIL SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS WRIT PETITION (C) NO.657 OF 1995 RESEARCH FOUNDN. FOR SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Petitioner(s) AND NATIONAL RESOPURCE POLICY VERSUS U O I & ANR. Respondent(s) (With application for extension of time for submitting report, modification, permission to file addl. documents and c/delay and discharge of advocate and for clarification of Court's order and impleadment and directions and interim relief and clarification and further direction and stay and office report) (For final disposal) (With I.A. No.54 ­ application for extension of time on behalf of Ministry of Environment and Forest) WITH Suo moto CONMT.PET.(C) NO. 155 of 2005 in WP(C) 657/1995 (With office report) SLP(C) NO. 16175 of 1997 (With appln. for ex parte stay and impleading party) Civil Appeal NO. 7660 of 1997 (With office report) Date: 22/01/2008 These Petitions were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE Dr. JUSTICE ARIJIT PASAYAT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.H. KAPADIA For Petitioner(s) Mr. Sanjay Parikh,Adv. Mr. A.N.Singh, Advs. Mr. P. Parmeswaran,Adv. Ms. B. Vijayalakshmi Menon, Adv. Ms. Shomona Khanna and Mr. Gaurav Agarwal, Advs. For Applicant: Mr. Atul Y.Chitale, Mrs. Suchitra A.Chitale,Adv. Mr. Dhruv Madan, Adv. Ms. S.Srivastava,Advs. Mr. Janaranjan Das, Mr. S. Mishra and Mrs. SR Mahanty, Advs. -2- For Respondent(s) Mr. Gopal Subramanium, ASG, Mr. Satyakam, Adv. Ms. Sushma Suri, Adv. Mrs. Kiran Bhardwaj Mr. A.K.Srivastava, Adv., Mr. B.K.Prasad, Adv. Mr. B.Dutta, ASG Mrs. Rajni Ohri Lal and Mr. DS Mahra, Advs. Mr. R.Mohan, ASG, Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. Manish Shanker, Adv. Mr. M.R.Shamshad, adv. Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra, Adv. Mr. A.Mariarputham, Mrs. Aruna Mathur, Advs. Mr. Shail Kumar Dwivedi, adv. Mr. Anil Kumar Jha,Adv. Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, adv. Mr. S.C.Ghosh,Adv. Mr. Aruneshwar Gupta ,Adv Mr. Naveen Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Gupta, Adv. Mrs Anil Katiyar ,Adv Mr. Ashok Mathur ,Adv Ms. Bina Gupta ,Adv Ms. Binu Tamta ,Adv Mr. Anil Kumar Jha, Adv. Ms. Savitri Pandey, Adv. Mr. D.N. Mishra ,Adv Mr. D.N. Goburdhan ,Adv Ms. Pinky Anand and Ms. Geeta Luthra, Advs. Dr. A.M.Singhvi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Venktesh Dhand, adv. Mr. Prshant Asher, Aadv. Mr. Mahesh Agraawal, adv. Mr. Rishi Agrawala, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala ,Adv. -3- Mr. Ejaz Maqbool ,Adv Mr. Gopal Singh ,Adv Mr.Raj Panjwani,Adv. Mr. Janaranjan Das ,Adv Mr. Swetaketu Mishra, adv. Mr. K.B. Rohtagi ,Adv Mrs Manik Karanjawala ,Adv M/S J.B. Dadachanji & Co. ,Adv Mr. Pramod Swarup ,Adv Mr. Pradeep Misra ,Adv Mr. KN Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. R. Sathish ,Adv Mr. Riku Sarma, Adv. for M/s Corporate Law Group, Advs. Ms. A.Subhashini, Adv. Mrs Urmila Sirur ,Adv M/S Sinha & Das ,Adv Mr. Shakil Ahmed Syed ,Adv Ms. S. Janani ,Adv Mr. Ravindra Kumar ,Adv M/s. VG Pragasam, S.Joseph Aristotle S.Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Advs. Mr. Anil Shrivastava and Mr. Ritu Raj, Advs. Mr. Manjit Singh, AAG, Mr. T.V.George, Adv. Ms. Vibha Dutta Makhija, adv. Mr. Vikrant Singh Bais, Adv. Mr. Vijay Panjwani,Adv. Mr. Rakesh K. Sharma ,Adv Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh ,Adv Mr. David Rao, Adv. Mr. Tarun Jamwal, Adv. Mr. S.Biswajit Meitei, Adv. Mr. Vijay Prakash, adv. Mr. Radha Shyam Jena ,Adv -4- Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv. Mr. Manish Kumar, Adv. Mr. Gopal Singh, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, adv. Ms. Asha G.Nair, Adv. Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde ,Adv Mr. Avijit Roy, adv. Mr. Ranjan Majumdar, adv. Mr. Jay Savla ,Adv Mr. Atishi Dipankar ,Adv Mr. V.N. Raghupathy ,Adv Ms. J.S.Wad, Adv. Mr. Ashish Wad, Adv. Mr. Neeraj Kumar, Adv. Mr. Chirag Dave,Adv. for M/S. J.S. Wad & Co. ,Adv Mr. Nikhil Nayyar ,Adv. Mr. Kamlendra Mishra ,Adv Mr. Mohanprasad Meharia ,Adv Mr. Ajay Sharma ,Adv Mr. J.S.Attri, Addl. Adv. General, State of HP Mr. Manoj Saxena, Adv. Mr. Rajnish Kr. Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Shukla, Adv. Mr. T.V.George, Adv. Mr. Dhruv Mehta, Adv. Ms. Namita Roy, adv. Ms. Sumita Hazarika ,Advs. Mr. K.N.Madhusoodan, Adv. Mr. R.Satish,Adv. Mr. Bharat Swaroop Sharma, Adv. Mr. Ashwani Bhardwaj ,Adv Mr. Gaurav Agrawal ,Adv Mr. K.K. Gupta, adv. -5- Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Adv. MS. Shivangi, adv. Ms. Pinky, Adv. UPON hearing counsel the Court made the following ORDER I.A. Nos. 48-49/2008: Issue notice. Ms. Susham Suri, Adv. appears and accepts notice on behalf of Union of India. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Learned ASG states that he shall file the response, if any, within eight weeks. Call after ten weeks. I.A. Nos. 52-53/2008: Issue notice to the Union of India. Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Learned ASG states that he shall look into the problems highlighted in the IAs. and shall file response within eight weeks. It is stated by him that, if necessary, suggestions as to how certain modalities fixed can be varied shall also be indicated. Call after ten weeks. I.A. No. 54/2008: Mr.Gupal Subramanium, Learned ASG prays that further eight weeks' time may be granted to him for working out modalities. Time prayed for is granted. The report shall be submitted within ten weeks. Call after ten weeks. (Shashi Sareen) (Madhu Saxena) Court Master Court Master