Supreme Court of India

M/s. Rhythm County v. The Principal Secretary

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Bench Dipankar Datta and Vijay Bishnoi JJ.
Decided 30 January 2026

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What the Court ordered

We, thus, find no ground to interfere with the impugned computation of environmental compensation in both the appeals under consideration. The appeals are without merit and, accordingly, stand dismissed.

Judgment, 47

In brief

RHYTHM, having obtained an EC in 2017 for a residential-cum-commercial project at Autade Handewadi, Pune (project cost approx. Rs. 335 crore), was found by a Joint Committee constituted by the NGT to have constructed a clubhouse and commercial buildings in deviation from the sanctioned plan, to have proceeded without valid consents under the Water and Air Acts, and to have continued construction despite an MPCB stop-work direction of 06.07.2020.…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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