The Supreme Court has proposed to close the MC Mehta cases on environmental pollution pending since 1984-85.
“We are fed up with these kinds of documents and applications,” CJI Surya Kant said.
“How many matters in MC Mehta? How many times will MC Mehta (cases) be in a day? Why can’t there be one matter of MC Mehta? When you ask in Parliament, we have to report how many old matters are pending before us. Every time you put us in an embarrassing position that 1985 matter is pending. What is happening in this Court!? Why can’t we treat them as separate applications clubbing together and dealing with them separately? I am not going to have these 1985 matters pending here,” the CJI said, posting these matters for hearing in the first week of March.
Under cases captioned as MC Mehta versus Union of India, the top court has been dealing with cases relating to the environment, sealing of commercial properties in residential areas in Delhi-NCR and those relating to protection of the Taj Mahal in Agra.
