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The Supreme Court of India in Auroville Foundation v NK Mody & Ors, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 557 overturned a decision of the ...

The foundation before the NGT argued that from its inauguration in February, 1968, Auroville was developed as an international cultural township and not as a forest. PTI ABA AMK ...

The NGT passed the order on a plea over the alleged felling of a large number of trees by the foundation from the Auroville forest area. The applicant claimed before the tribunal that the master ...

The Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC ... and recognised that the area in question (Darkali) was not a forest and did not require clearance under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 ...

The NGT passed the order on a plea over the alleged felling of a large number of trees by the foundation from the Auroville forest area. The applicant claimed before the tribunal that the master ...

alleging that the Auroville Foundation’s road construction—particularly the Crown Road and Outer Ring Road—was destroying a forested area known as the Darkali Forest. The NGT had directed ...

Mody claimed that Auroville was a forest area and that the Foundation’s activities were causing the destruction of the natural environment. The Foundation maintained that Auroville was developed ...

The argument was that the area constituted a 'forest' and the township's 'development' plans would destroy the green area. Auroville, though, had argued it had been developed as an 'international ...