Supreme Court issues notice to Centre, Madhya Pradesh on plea against 237 ‘illegal’ environmental clearances by SEIAA member-secretary

On Wednesday, July 23, 2025, the Madhya Pradesh decided to hear a petition seeking a statement that the illegal and environmental laws of the Environmental openings granted by the Secretary of the Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (Seıaa).

Three judges headed by the Chief Justice of India, the Union Government, the State, the President of the Seıaa and the Secretary General of the State Environment Department issued notification to the Secretary Secretary.

Vijay Kumar Das, a petition owner, a Hindi newspaper publisher, organized the Central Investigation Bureau as a participant. Notifications can be returned within two weeks.

Protected by Senior Attorney Vivek Tankha and Lawyer Sumeer Sodhi, the law of the Environmental (Protection) Law, 1986; Environmental (Protection) Rules, 1986; and Environmental Impact Assessment Declaration, 2006.

The petition claimed that the openings were the result of a deliberate strategy to skip the collective decision -making process compulsory by the law and benefited from the ‘approved’ provisions after allowing legal periods to pass.

He said that there was no seıaa or SEAC (State Expert Evaluation Committee), which was properly created between 11 June 2024 between January 6, 2025. This year, a new Seıaa was established on January 7.

The alleged violations began when the first environmental opening of the first environmental opening from May 23 was given unilaterally by the member secretary. The petition said that on May 24, a large number of permission was given within one day and showed the prescribed nature of the alleged violations.

“Although he wrote about 48 representations between the April-June 2025, the systematic violations that appeal to various authorities, including the member secretary, director, secretary and Indian Union to prevent these illegal actions. büyük bir kısmını gösteriyor”, devletin büyük bir kısmını gösteriyor, ”devlet, devletin büyük bir kısmını gösteriyor,” devletin, devletin büyük bir kısmını gösteriyor ”, devletin, devletin büyüklüğünü gösterdiğini gösteriyor,” devlet, devletin, devletin, devletin büyüklüğünü gösterdiğini gösteriyor, ”devlet, devletin, devletin, devletin büyüklüğünü gösterdiğini gösteriyor,” devlet, devletin, devletin büyük bir kısmını gösteriyor ” dedi dilekçe.

The case, facilitating illegal environmental gaps for mining lobbies and industrial interests, said that the secretaries and senior officials who abuse their positions for preliminary motives, including personal gains, were a “classic example”.

The petition made an active agreement with the member-eighty, the secretary, the Ministry of Environment and other public officials, and ensured that the seıaa meetings are not regulated in a long-term manner with the intention of allowing the legal period to evaluate the evaluation. ”