M.C MEHTA V. KAMAL NATH & ORS.

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Shrishti Singh

5th Sem. /3rd Yr. 

ICFAI University, Dehradun

ABSTRACT 

The Indian Express distributed an article detailing that a privately owned business, Span Motels Private Ltd. ('the Motel Company'), proprietor of Span Resorts, had glided a yearning project called Span Club. Kamal Nath who was the Minister of Environment and Forests had direct connections with this organization. The organization infringed upon 27.12 huge has of land which likewise included backwoods land. The land was regularized and in this way rented out to the organization on eleventh April 1994. This infringement affected the course of stream Beas. For over 5 months the Span Resorts the board moved tractors and earth movers to turn the course of the waterway for the subsequent time. In September, 1993, these exercises by the organization caused floods in the waterway and a property worth Rs. 105 Crores was annihilated.