WRIT - C No. 5137 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:32249-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - C No. - 5137 of 2025 Petitioner :- Chandra Bali Yadav Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru Addl. Chief Secy. Forests, Environment Forests And Climate Change Dept. And Ors Counsel for Petitioner :- Utsav Misra,Santosh Kumar Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Ashok Kumar Verma Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Ajai Kumar Srivastava-I,J. 1. Heard Sri Anushree Moitra, Advocate holding brief of Sri Utsav Misra, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the State, Sri Ashok Kumar Verma, learned counsel for the U.P. Pollution Control Board. 2. By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the validity of orders dated 19.02.2024 (as contained in Annexure Nos.1 & 2) passed by the Chief Environmental Officer (Circle-2), U.P. Pollution Control Board, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow. 3. With the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the writ petition is being finally decided at the admission stage. 4. It is true that some proceedings for carrying out mining without issuance of a C.T.O. by U.P. Pollution Control Board had been initiated against the petitioner before the