Supreme Court of India

In Re: 2 Million Lives at Risk, Contamination in Jojari River, Rajasthan

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Bench Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 7 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

List the matters on 22nd September, 2026 as part-heard for considering the Comprehensive Resolution Plan to be submitted by the Integrated Coordination Group in consultation with the Committee.

Judgment, 36

In brief

Monitoring a suo motu petition into contamination of the Jojari river, the Court considered the High-Level Ecosystem Oversight Committee's Second Status Report, the SIT's report and the State of Rajasthan's compliance affidavits. The material disclosed severe degradation of the Jojari-Bandi-Luni river system through discharge of untreated industrial effluents, with the SIT finding prima facie connivance between officials of Common Effluent Treatment Plants and their member textile units in deliberately bypassing treatment; graver penal provisions and arrests were, however, effected only shortly before the hearing date.…

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