Noise Pollution: Relation with the Indian Constitution and Religion. In our daily lives, we come across two terms: ‘noise’ and ‘sound’. We use them without knowing their actual meaning. We must differentiate between these two terms. In terms of physics, the sound is a mechanical disturbance propagated as a wave motion in the air and […]
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S.133 CrPC and Environment Pollution. Chapter X CrPC– Part B, has provided a provision for public nuisance which relates to environmental pollution. Section 133 CrPC empowers a District Magistrate, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, to stop the nuisance on receiving information. In Govind Singh v. Shanti Sarup (1979) nuisance was defined in very liberal terms and includes the
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Scope of Environmental Pollution as a Tort. In MC Mehta v. Kamal Nath the leading case in the history of environmental law pollution, it was observed that “Pollution is a civil wrong. By its very nature, it is a tort committed against the community as a whole. A person, therefore, who is guilty of causing
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The Story of Bhopal Gas Tragedy-Moment of Terror. It all started the night of 2–3 December 1984 would be so frightful for the residents was inconceivable. Its been more than thirty years this event occurred but it still gives goosebumps to those people who survived it or inherited from their predecessors. A gas leak left
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The protection of environment by laws in India is one of the cardinal laws a country should have. The relationship between the environment and human beings is very perplexed. Since human is harming nature for his own benefits, nature is also avenging its exploitation. One way where we praise nature, the other way we harm
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Environmental pollution is subsisting for centuries. It is a stumbling block in every society. Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Environmental pollution is defined as “the contamination of the physical and biological components of the earth/atmosphere system to such an extent that normal environmental processes are adversely affected.” It
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