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Forest bench stays caused by ministry’s corruption: Apex court

By IANS,

New Delhi : The Supreme Court Friday said that it wanted to wind up its forest bench scrutinising projects that would have an adverse bearing on environment but unbridled corruption in the sanction of clearance by the environment and forests ministry was preventing it from doing so.

“We would have up wound up the forest bench but because of the corruption we have to continue with it,” Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said while hearing a matter concerning setting up a cement plant by Nirma in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district.