T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD . versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

Citation: [2008] 6 S.C.R. 321 · Decided: 28-03-2008 · Supreme Court of India · Bench: K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA · Disposal: IA disposed
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[2008] 6 S.C.R. 321 
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T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD . 
A 
V. 
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. 
I.AS No. 826 etc. 
IN 
(Writ Petition (C) No. 202 of 1995) 
B 
MARCH 28, 2008 
(K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, CJ. AND DR. ARIJIT PASAYAT 
AND S.H. KAPADIA, JJ.) 
c 
Environment Protection Act, 1986: 
s.3(3) -
S~tting up of Central Empowered Committee -
Considering use of forest are.as in developmental activities 
for non forest purposes - Recommendations by CEC for 
payment of Net Present Valµe (NPV) on the basis of D 
..... 
classification of forest made by it for diversion of forest- Held: 
Recommendations accepted - It is made clear that the NPV 
rates so fixed would hold good for a period of three years and 
subject to verification after three years - The exemptions 
recommended are also accepted - If, in any case, exemption 
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is required by nature of peculiar circumstances of the case, 
the same would be decided as and when necessary on a case 
to case basis. 
TN. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs. Union of India & Ors. 
F 
(2008) 3 SCR 141 and T.N. Godavarman Thirumulpad vs. 
·--1 
Union of India & Ors. (2006) 1 SCC 1 - referred to. 
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: 
I.A Nos. 826 in 566 with 955 in 566, 958, 985, 1001-
1001A, 1013-14, 1016-1018, 1019, 1046, 1047, 1135-1136, G 
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, 
321 
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322 
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 
[2008] 6 S.C.R. 
A 
i 434, 1435-1437, 1438, 1441 with 1634, 1475-14 76, 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, 207 4-2076, 2077-2078 in 1441 & 2098 
in 1233 in 1135-1136, 2145-2146, 2147-2148, 2149-2150 & 
B 2153-2154 in I.A. 566 in W.P. (C) No. 202/1995 
Altaf H. Naiyak. A.G., G.E., Vahanvati. S.G. Gilda, 
Aruneshwar Gupta AAGs. Gopal Subramanium. Parag Tripathi 
and A. Suran. ASGs., Harish N. Salve, Uday U. Lalit, F.S. 
Nariman. L. Nageswara Rao. Arun Jaitley, Mukul Rohtagi. V.C. 
C Mahajan, Ranjit Kumar, R.P. Bhat, Altaf Ahmed. VA. Mohta. 
S.B. Upadhyay, A.V. Savant. P.P. Rao, K.K. Venugapal, 
P.H. Parekh (for M/s. Parekh & Co.) and Kailash B., Siddhartha 
Chowdhury, P.K. Manohar. Viplav Sharma, Amit Kr. Chawla, 
0 
Sanjay R. Hegde, Anurag Singh, Naresh Bakshi. Raj Panjwani, 
Purnima Bhat Kak, P. Parmeswaran, Harris Beeran, D.S. Mahra, 
Alka Sharma, f~achna Srivastava, Ajit Pudussery, Sunil Dogra, 
S.U.K. Sagar, Bina Madhavan (for M/s. Lawyer's Knit & Co.), 
G. Ramakrishna Prasad, Suyodhan Byrapaneni, Siddharth 
Patnaik. G. Arun Pratap Venugopal, Dileep Poolakkot. Sanjeev 
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Kumar, Kumar Mihir (for M/s. Khaitan & Co.), Tara Chandra 
Sharma, Ajay Sharma, Tasleem Ahmadi, R.S. Jena, Manu Nair, 
Anuj Puri, Nidhi Minocha, Rajesh Srivastava, Sanjib Sen, Ratna 
Kaul, Prashant Kumar (M/s. APJ Chambers), Manjit Singh, T.V. 
George, Dhruv Mehta. Harshvardhan Jha, Yashraj S. Deora (for 
F 
Mis K.L. Mehta & Co.), Shobha (for M/s. K.L. Mehta & Co.), 
Pallav Shishodia, H.D. Thanvi, Manju Mishra, D.N. Mishra, M.L. 
Lahoty, BhupenderYadav, S.S. Shamshery, P.V. Dinesh, Sindhu 
T.P. A.V. Rao, Prabhakar Parnam, Venkateshwara Rao 
Anumolu, Ajai Bhalla, Abha R. Sharma, Vikas Mahajan, D.B. 
G Vohra, Wasim A. Qadri, Subair Ahmad Khan, B.K. Prasad, 
Aruna Gupta, Sumita Hazarika, P.S. Narasimha, Sridhar 
Potaraju. D. Julius R., S.C. Patel, Gopal Jain, R.N. Karanjawala, 
M. Karanjawala. Nandini Gore, Debmalya Sanerjee, Sonia 
Nigam, Dattatray Vyas, Mahima C. Shroff, Chirag M. Shroff, 
H H.K. Puri, S.K. Puri, Priyavri, V.l\t1. Chauhan, J.T. Gilda, Manish 
T.N. GODAVARMAN THIRUMULPAD v. UNION OF !NOIA 
323 
& ORS. 
Pitale, C.S. Ashri. Nikhil Nayyar, Ankit Singhal, T.V.S. 
A 
Raghavendra Sreyas, G. Prakash. R.R. Dubey, Santosh Mishra, 
Sharmila Upadhyay, Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Sunita Rao, 
B.S. Banthia, Vikas Upadhyay, A.P. Mayee, Umapathy, N.M. 
Popli, Asha G. Nair. M.P. Singh, Dr. Vipin Gupta, A. Subhashini, 
Savitri Pandey, Mohd. Fuzail Khan,Anil Kr. Jha,Amit Kr. Chawla, 
B 
Arul Varma, Vikrant Yadav, Kh. Nobin Singh, David Rao, Tarun 
Jamwal, S. Biswajit Meitei, Vijay Prakash, Naveen Kr. Singh, 
Shashwat Gupta, Kuldip Singh. R.K. Pandey, H.S. Sandhu, Anil 
Karnwal, Dr. Sushi! Balwada, E.C. Agrawala, Mahesh Agarwal, 
Rishi Agrawala, Ashutosh Garg, Neha Aggarwal, Gourav Goyal, · c 
Momta Oinam (for Ms. Corporate La
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