The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside its own previous verdict that had barred the Centre from granting retrospective environmental clearances, restoring the government’s power to issue post-facto approvals for projects that violated green norms.
The earlier order on May 16, popularly called the Vanashakti judgment, by a bench of Justice AS Oka (since retired) and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, had held that post-facto clearances were impermissible, emphasising that t
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