{"id":197717,"date":"1998-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-04-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-c-mehta-vs-u-o-i-ors-on-23-april-1998"},"modified":"2015-09-01T23:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:25:44","slug":"m-c-mehta-vs-u-o-i-ors-on-23-april-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/m-c-mehta-vs-u-o-i-ors-on-23-april-1998","title":{"rendered":"M.C. Mehta vs U.O.I. &amp; Ors on 23 April, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">M.C. Mehta vs U.O.I. &amp; Ors on 23 April, 1998<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1998 (3) SCALE 667<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: P . M.M., S Agrawal, S S Ahmad<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>1. Mr. Ashok Desai, learned Senior counsel appearing for the Faridabad Municipal Corporation has agreed to place before us another set of plans in which the green belt would be freshly earmarked so as to exclude all habitation in the encircled area.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. To come up on 30th April, 1998 before this Bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India M.C. Mehta vs U.O.I. &amp; Ors on 23 April, 1998 Equivalent citations: 1998 (3) SCALE 667 Bench: P . M.M., S Agrawal, S S Ahmad ORDER 1. Mr. Ashok Desai, learned Senior counsel appearing for the Faridabad Municipal Corporation has agreed to place before us another set of plans in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>M.C. 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