Institute of Legal and Management Studies

The Supreme Court today took suo motu cognizance with respect to River Jojari in Rajasthan noting that industrial waste, primarily from factories, is being discharged there, affecting hundreds of villages and making drinking water not potable.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta called for registration of a suo motu case and ordered, "let the matter be placed before Hon'ble CJI for appropriate orders".

Notably, the same bench recently took suo motu cognizance of the lack of functional CCTV cameras in police stations, based on a news report pointing out custodial deaths in the State of Rajasthan. Orders were reserved in the same yesterday, while mooting independent monitoring of the CCTV cameras in police stations without any human intervention.

Prior to that, a bench led by Justice JB Pardiwala raised alarm over environmental concerns in the State of Himachal Pradesh, warning that if development activities are allowed to go on unchecked, the state may vanish from the map of the country. A suo motu case was taken up in this regard, which was heard by Justice Nath-led bench and orders reserved yesterday.