“Our prima facie is holding that NGT cannot strike laws”, observe the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Tuesday observed that the National Green Tribunal (NGT) could not decide and strike legal validity.
The bench consisting of the chief justice of India Sa Bobde, and the judge as Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian.
They heard the request to appeal against the Karnataka High Court order. It plea challenging section 40 of the Biodiversity act. The plea was transferred by the High Court to NGT, Chennai.
Strike legal validity
SLP in instant cases challenges the order of transfers of requests to NGT. In today’s hearing, CJI observed, “Prima facie believes that the National Green Court cannot strike down a law”.
Senior advocate Nikhil Nayyar appeared on behalf of the Petitioner’s environment support group. Also, He told the court that the problem had been clarified in the Sterlite case in strike legal validity.
Senior advocate Aditya Sondhi, however, proposed that in the case of L. Chandrakumar, the appeal is present. By the way, For this, CJI replied that it was not a question that was in front of the court.
Therefore, the court continued to direct the interim stay on NGT orders of strike legal validity. Finally, The problem will go further to the next step.
