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The Doctrine the Court Enforces and the Doctrine It Defers

A sitting Supreme Court judge publicly conceding that his own court is inconsistent in applying environmental doctrine is unusual candour from the bench, arriving as India's courts face rising volumes of infrastructure-clearance litigation from Himalayan tunnelling to island development projects. Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan authored an essay tracing the evolution of India's environmental jurisprudence and addressing…