T.N. GODAVARAMAN THIRUMULPAD versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS.

Citation: [2008] 8 S.C.R. 152 · Decided: 09-05-2008 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA · Disposal: Disposed off
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152 
[2008] 8 S.C.R. 152 
A 
T.N. GODAVARAMAN THIRUMULPAD 
' 
V. 
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. 
I.As. No. 826 etc. 
IN 
B 
(Writ Petition @ No. 202 of 1955) 
MAY 9, 2008 
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[K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, CJI, DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT AND 
S.H. KAPADIA, JJ] 
c 
s.3(3) - ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT, 1986: 
Central Empowered Committee - Exemption sought to 
use forest areas in developmental activities for non-forest pur-
poses - Payment of Net Present Value - Order of Supreme 
D Court dated 28. 3. 2008 - Corrections of typographical errors at 
pages 10 and 11 - HELD: Pages 10 and 11 of the order shall 
stand substituted as shown in the instant order - Recommen-
dations for exemption are accordingly accepted - If, in any 
case, exemption is required by nature of the peculiar circum-
E stances of the case, the same would be decided as and when 
necessary on a case to case basis. 
T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union of India and 
Ors. [2008] 6 SCR 321 - refused to 
I.A. Nos. 826 IN 566 WITH 955 IN 566, 958, 985, 1001-
) 
F 
1001A, 1013-14, 1016-1018, 1019, 1046, 1047, 1135-1136, 
1164, 1180-1181, 1182-1183, 1196, 1208-1209, 1222-1223, 
1224-1225, 1229, 1233 IN 1135-1136, 1248-1249, 1253, 1301-
1302, 1303-1304, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1318, 1319IN1137, 1325, 
1364, 1365-1366, 1370-1370A,1371, 1384, 1385-1386, 1387, 
G 1434, 1435-1437, 1438, 1441 WITH 1634, 1475-1476, 1513, 
1573, 1639 IN 1135-1136 IN IA 566, 1664, 1665, 1671, 1676, 
1707, 1721, 1779 IN 1164 IN 566, 1785-1786 IN I.A. NO. 1441, 
~ 
1980-1981, 1993, 2013, 2074-2076, 2077-2078 IN 1441 & 
2098 IN 1233 IN 1135-1136, 2145-2146, 2147-2148, 2149-
H 
152 
T.N. GODAVARAMAN THIRUMULPAD v. 
153 
UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. 
2150 & 2153-2154 IN I.A. 566 IN W.P.(C) NO. 20211995 
A 
G.E. Vahanvati, S.G.,A. Sharan,ASG, Harsh, N. Salve, Uday U. 
Lalit, T.S. Doabia, Ranjit Kumar, K.K. Venugopal, Mukul Rohtagi, 
P.S. Patwalia, Altaf Ahmed, V.A. Mehta, S.B. Upadhyay, Ranjit 
Kumar, Dr, Rajiv Dhavan, Rajesh (for K. Rajeev), A.V. Savant, 
Anil Diwan, Siddhartha Chowdhary, A.D.N. Rao, P.K. Manohar, 
8 
Shakun Sharma, Rukhmini Bobde, Harris Beeran, Rekha 
Pandey, Alka Sharma, D.D. Kamat, A.Mariarputham, P. 
Parmeswaran, Ambika Das, Sunil Roy (for D.S. Mahra), Asha 
G. Nair (for D.S. Mahra), Anip Sachthey, Mohit Paul, Sanjay R. 
Hegde, A. Rohen Singh. Amit Kr. Chawla, Manohar Lal Sharma, C 
Rajgopal N. (for Debasis Misra), Arvind Kr. Sharma, Saurabh 
Mishra, S.W.A. Qadri, B.K. Prasad, Anuradha Dutta, 
Vijayalakshmi Menon, Naveen Kr. Singh, Shashwat Gupta, (for 
Aruneshwar Gupta, AAG), Sunil Dogra, S.U.K. Sagar, Bina 
Madhavan (for Mis. Lawyers Knit & Co.), Ajay Sharma, Ms D 
Tasleem Ahmadi, R.S. Jena, Ms. Nidhi Minocha, Adesh Sharma, 
Rajesh Srivastava, Anurag Sharma, Ms. Ratna Kaul, Prashant 
Kumar (for Mis. APJ Chambers), Manjit Singh, T.V. George, 
Dhruv Mehta, Harshvardhan Jha, Yashraj S. Deora, Gulshan 
Sharma (for Mis. K.L. Mehta & Co.) Satinder S. Gulati, 
E 
Kamaldeep Gulati, Amanpreet Singh Rahi, M.L.Lahoty, Vikas 
Mahajan, D.B. Vohra, Aruna Gupta, Sumita Hazarika, S.C. Patel, 
P. Parmeswaran, J.T. Gilda, Manish Pitale (for C.S. Ashri). 
Neeraj Malhotra. Nikhil Nayyar, Ankit Singhal, T.V.S. 
Raghavendra Sreyas, Anisha Upadhyay, Shiv Mangal Sharma 
F 
(for sharmila Upadhyay), Rajesh R. Dubey, Santosh Mishra, 
Anisha Upadhyay, C.P. Sharma, Geeta Sharma, Santosh Singh, 
B.S. Banthia, Vikas Upadhyay, Vivek Gupta, Shaket Agarwal, 
Ashish Dholakia, Adarsh Priyadarshini, S. Sukumaran, Rajesh 
(for K. Rajeev), Aruna Gupta, Sumita Hazarika, Amit Pudussery, 
G 
G. Prakash, Umapathy. N. M. Popli, A. Subhashini, Anil Kr. Jha, 
~ 
Rani Chhabra (for Mis. Khaitan & Co.) A. Rohen Singh, Amit Kr. 
Chawla, KH. Nobin Singh, Momta Oinam (for Mis. Corporate I 
aw Group), K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, Anil Shtivastav, 
Ritu Raj, Gopal Singh, Harish Kumar Puri, Anil Katiyar, Abhiji! P. 
H 
154 
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2008) 8 S.C.R. 
A 
Medh, Anil Nag. Naresh Kumar. A.K. Sinha, Chirag, M. Shroff 
Ajay Pal, Raj Kumar Mehta. Mragank. M. Nalini Pal, Vishnu B. 
Saharya (for Mis. Saharya & Co.) B.P. Singh, Sanjeev Kumar, 
Sarla Chandra, Mukesh K. Giri Ajit Kr. Sinha Ambhoj Kr. Sinha, 
Himinder Lal, Anis Suhrawady, V.B. Joshi, Kailash Pandey, 
B Shuchi Singh, K.V. Viswanathan, B. Raghunath, Vijay Kumar, 
Jayant Mohan, Rahul Pratap (for Dr. Kailash Chand), Vijay 
Panjwani, Pallav Sisodia, R.A. Malandar, S.C. Patel, Subhashish 
Bhowmick, Tajas Patel, Akhil Sibal, Krishna, R.N. Karanjawala, 
Manik Karanjawala, Nandini Gore, Debmalya
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