Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

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14 Supreme Court judgments considering this law. Search within these.

• Union Territory of J & K (Previously State of Jammu & Kashmir) & Anr. v. Raja Muzaffar Bhat & Ors.
  2025 INSC 102522 August 2025Dismissed

  Accepting the recommendations of the EAC, the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) granted Environmental Clearance (EC) to the project proponent on 19.04.2022. Aggrieved by the issuance of EC dated 19.04.2022,…

• Vanashakti v. Union of India
  2025 INSC 9615 August 2025Partly allowed

  The present petition challenges the notification dated 29.01.2025 (impugned notification) bearing number S.O. 523(E) issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and the Office Memorandum (O.M.)…

• Delhi Pollution Control Committee v. Lodhi Property Co. Ltd. Etc.
  2025 INSC 9233 August 2025Appeal(s) allowed

  Whether the regulatory boards can, in exercise of powers u/s.33A of the Water Act and s.31A of the Air Act, impose and collect as restitutionary and compensatory damages fixed sums of monies or require furnishing bank guarantees…

• Arun Kumar Sharma & Ors. v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.
  2025 INSC 82614 July 2025Dismissed

  Issue arose as regards the objections raised by the respondents about the bonafides of the appellants as also the allegations that the appellants suppressed the initiation of parallel proceedings before the High Court.

• M K Ranjitsinh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.
  2024 INSC 28021 March 2024Directions issued

  Conservation and protection of the endangered species of the Great Indian Bustard (GIB).

• Vedanta Limited v. The State of Tamil Nadu & Ors
  2024 INSC 17529 February 2024Dismissed

  Impugned orders passed by the High Court directing closure of the copper smelter operated by the petitioner at the industrial complex in Tamil Nadu for violations of numerous environmental norms, if justified.

• In Re: T. N. Godavarman Thirumulpad v. Union of India and Ors.
  2024 INSC 7831 January 2024Directions issued

  Institutionalisation and Reconstitution of the Central Empowered Committee.

• D. Swamy v. Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and Ors
  2022 INSC 99822 September 2022Dismissed
• Electrosteel Steels Limited v. Union of India and Ors. Etc
  2021 INSC 8599 December 2021Appeal(s) allowed
• State of Madhya Pradesh v. Centre for Environment Protection Research and Development & Ors.
  2020 INSC 51628 August 2020Appeal(s) allowed
• State of Meghalaya v. All Dimasa Students Union, Dima-Hasao District Committee & Ors.
  2019 INSC 7213 July 2019Disposed of
• Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board v. Sterlite Industries (I) Ltd. & Ors.
  2019 INSC 22018 February 2019Disposed of
• Techi Tagi Tara v. Rajendra Singh Bhandari & Ors.
  2017 INSC 98622 September 2017Disposed of
• Anirudh Kumar v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi & Ors.
  2015 INSC 24220 March 2015Appeal(s) allowed