{"id":488278,"date":"2022-05-02T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=488278"},"modified":"2022-05-02T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T04:18:40","slug":"ngt-refuses-to-recall-order-directing-afcons-and-lt-to-pay-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ngt-refuses-to-recall-order-directing-afcons-and-lt-to-pay-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"NGT refuses to recall order directing Afcons and L&amp;T to pay compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Green Tribunal has refused to recall its order directing Afcons Infrastructure Limited and Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited to pay compensation of Rs 1 crore each for unscientific muck dumping in Arzi nallah at the Pakal Dul Hydroelectric Project in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice A K Goel said once the applicants caused damage and violated environmental norms, they cannot escape liability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subsequent clearance of waste cannot be a ground for waiving the compensation for damage already caused and violation already committed. Even though for such violation, on &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; principle, deterrent compensation is liable to be paid having regard to the financial capacity of the polluter,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Green Tribunal has refused to recall its order directing Afcons Infrastructure Limited and Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited to pay compensation of Rs 1 crore each for unscientific muck dumping in Arzi nallah at the Pakal Dul Hydroelectric Project in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice A K Goel said once the applicants caused damage and violated environmental norms, they cannot escape liability. &#8220;Subsequent clearance of waste cannot be a ground for waiving the compensation for damage already caused and violation already committed. Even though for such violation, on &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; principle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}