more-inLegal experts are divided in their opinions over the decision of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to cut the electricity and shut down the Sterlite plant at Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. He compares this use of executive power to the closure of over 900 tanneries in Tamil Nadu. “The same wide powers found in Sections 31A and 33A of Air Act and Water Act, respectively, are found in Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986. Experts say the State government has chosen to walk the tight-rope by employing Sections 31A and 33A. Any deviation from procedure would make the act of closure “vulnerable to invalidation on the grounds of arbitrariness and unreasonableness”.

Source: The Hindu May 28, 2018 18:22 UTC