Judgment/order: Effect of – Order passed by the National Green tribunal – Appeal thereagainst – Appellant’s case that as a result of the order passed by the tribunal, appellant has been completely shut out from redress in the proceedings pending before the NGT – Held :Consequence of the impugned order is to effectively shut out the appellant from addressing its objections to the proposed exchange before the NGT – This course of action, followed by the NGT, is indefensible – NGT ought to have, in deference to the order passed by this Court, allowed the process which had been initiated before the State and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change to continue, but to permit the appellant in the pending proceedings to address its objections in accordance with law – NGT was duty bound to follow the order of this Court and the same was not done – Thus, the impugned order of the NGT set aside.
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