Environment Must Prevail Over Other Rights, Forests Have To Be Preserved: Supreme Court
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court stressed upon the need to preserve forests and said it is because of the strict interpretation and exposition by the top court that the forest cover is increasing.
The environment "must prevail" over other rights and forests must be preserved, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while hearing a matter which involved issues regarding forest and non-forest land in Haryana.
The top court stressed upon the need to preserve forests and said it is because of the strict interpretation and exposition by the top court that the forest cover is increasing.
"Environment is more important than your civil rights," a bench headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar said, adding, "The environment must prevail over all other rights".
The bench, also comprising Justices A S Oka and C T Ravikumar, was hearing the pleas which raised the issue regarding forest and non-forest land in reference to interplay between provisions of the Punjab Land Preservation Act, 1900, the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 and the land which forms part of development plan under the Faridabad Complex (Regulation and Development) Act, 1971.
