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The petitions arose out of disputes concerning land within and adjacent to Sanjay Gandhi National Park and Thane Municipal Corporation limits, involving questions of forest land classification, environmental protection, development permissions, and the rights of private parties over lands claimed to be forest or national park buffer areas. The State of Maharashtra, acting through the Chief Conservator of Forests and Director of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, challenged certain rights and developments claimed by private respondents including D. Dayabhai & Co. Pvt. Ltd. and others over lands in the Manpada-Ghodbunder Road area of Thane.
Conservation Action Trust and its Executive Trustee sought intervention in the proceedings raising environmental concerns relating to the protection of ecologically sensitive land, green cover, and the sanctity of reserved forest and national park boundaries. The Thane Municipal Corporation was also impleaded as a party given its role in granting development permissions and its statutory obligations under municipal and town planning law.
The Bombay High Court, after examining the competing claims of the State forest authorities, private landowners, the municipal corporation, and environmental intervenors, disposed of the connected writ petitions and interim applications with appropriate directions balancing private property rights against the imperatives of forest and environmental conservation under applicable statutory frameworks.
Catchwords:
forest land
national park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
environmental protection
development permission
Thane Municipal Corporation
private land
reserved forest
writ petition
intervener
conservation
urban development
Maharashtra
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"title": "Conservation Action Trust And Anr vs The State Of Maharashtra And Ors",
"case_number": "WP No. 10024 of 2023 (with WP No. 3205 of 2018 and connected matters)",
"side": "constitutional",
"date_of_judgment": "2026-02-20",
"bench": "Ravindra V. Ghuge",
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"parties_petitioner": "Conservation Action Trust and Mr. Debi Goenka (Applicants in IA No. 2785 of 2020); D. Dahyabhai & Co. Pvt. Ltd. and Nitesh Prataprai Kothari (Petitioners in WP No. 10024 of 2023); State of Maharashtra (Petitioner in WP No. 3205 of 2018)",
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