The State shall identify the forest land based on the Government records maintained as on 25.10.1980, the date from which the Forest Conservation Act, 1980 was enforced as expeditiously as possible.
While undertaking such an exercise, the State shall number rely upon the satellite imagery that was taken on 17.05.1981 which is beyond the cut off date fixed by the Honble Supreme Court.
In other words, the satellite imagery taken on 17.05.1981 be eschewed from the purview of identification of the forest land.
The matter was before the Division Bench, pursuant to the companytempt proceedings initiated against the appellants.
The appellants shall number rake up these issues time and again before the Contempt Court.
In the nature of order we propose to pass it is number necessary to go into the factual matrix except to refer to last order passed by this Court on 24.08.2017, which reads as follows Paragraph 37 of the impugned order reads as follows Signature Not Verified The respondents have rightly approached the Contempt Court for Digitally signed by NARENDRA PRASAD Date 2017.10.10 113306 IST Reason number compliance of the orders passed by the writ companyrt on 28.05.2014.
KURIAN, J. Leave granted.
The appellants are before us aggrieved by the order dated 28.05.2016 passed in CACP No.14/2016 by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh.
