WRIT - C No. 7723 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:49065-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 7723 of 2025 Petitioner :- Municipal Corporation Lucknow Thru Municipal Commissioner Respondent :- U.P. Pollution Control Board Thru Chief Environmental Officer Circle 5 Lucknow And Ors. Counsel for Petitioner :- Namit Sharma Counsel for Respondent :- Ashok Kumar Verma,C.S.C. Hon'ble Rajan Roy,J. Hon'ble Manjive Shukla,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Ashok Verma, learned counsel for the U.P. Pollution Control Board, and Sri Nishant Shukla, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State. 2. In this case, an order has been passed by the U.P. Pollution Control Board under Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act in exercise of the power delegated to it by the Central Government. This issue is also covered by our judgment passed today in one of the connected writ petitions bearing WRIT - C No. - 7305 of 2025 wherein we have considered the decision of Hon'ble The Supreme Court in the case of D.P.C.C. Vs. Lodhi Property Co. Ltd. (Civil Appeal No (s). 757- 760 of 2013 and as it is not in doubt that under Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act the Central Government or its