Landmark case · Environmental Law · Semester 1
M.C. Mehta v. Union of India (Oleum Gas)
(1987) 1 SCC 395 · Supreme Court of India
Absolute liability applies to hazardous industry.
From topic
Trespass, negligence, strict/absolute liability and criminal/civil abatement — Unit II, Environmental Law.
Related sections:
- Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, 270–273 — Public nuisance related offences (compare old IPC 268–290)
- Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 152 — Conditional order for removal of nuisance (compare CrPC 133)
- Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, 91 — Public nuisances and other wrongful acts affecting the public