July 16, 2010 7:12 PM

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Creation of second special green bench announced

The Supreme Court today announced the creation of second special green bench to deal with matters relating to environment and forest. <br/><br/>The move comes in view of manifold increase in number of such cases. Chief Justice S H Kapadia said, they are going to divide the forest bench into two parts. He informed that the new bench will be headed by Justice B Sudershan Reddy, who will sit on Monday and hear matters relating to implementation of directives passed by it. <br/><br/>The CJI said the bench headed by him, which also includes Justices Aftab Alam and K S Radhakrishnan, will look after the matters in which norms are to be laid down. Justice Kapadia said the matters relating to mining will be heard by the bench headed by him which will conduct the proceedings as usual on Friday.<br/><br/> The Chief Justice said matters will be taken up for hearing in a chronological order and no adjournment will be given and suggested the Ministry of Environment and Forest be ready in advance with all the matters.

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