Ashokan Mani v. Mohamed Rizwan Sherif

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 19-12-2025

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE V. LAKSHMINARAYANAN in W.P.No.37700 of 2025

1. Ashokan Mani 2.Rajesh Selvaraji 3.Mahendran Mani Petitioner(s) Vs

1. Mohamed Rizwan Sherif 2.The Government Of Tamilnadu Represented by its Principal Secretary Department Of Environment, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009 3.The Tamil Nadu Coastal Zone Management Authority Represented by its Member Secretary, Department Of Environment And Climate Change 9th Floor, CMRL Metros, Anna Salai, Nandanam Chennai 600 035 4.The Chairperson, Tamil Nadu State Coastal Zone Management Authority, Additional Chief Secretary To Government, Environment, Climate

Change, and Forest Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009 5.The District Collector District Collector Office, Grand Southern Trunk Road, Chenglapattu District, Tamil Nadu 603 001 6.The District Coastal Zone Management Authority, Represented by its Member Secretary, Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu 603 001.

7.The Convenor, District Coastal Zone Management Authority, District Environmental Engineer, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Maraimalai Nagar, Chenglapattu, Tamil Nadu 603 209.

Respondent(s) PRAYER:- Writ Miscellaneous Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, pleased to implead the petitioners as respondents in WP.No.37700 of 2025.

For Petitioner(s):

A.Yogeshwaran

ORDER

The petitioners are the applicants in O.A.No.126 of 2025 before the National Green Tribunal (South Zone). The relief sought for in O.A.No.126 of 2025 is to remove the compound wall. No final orders have been passed in the said Original Application. Pending the O.A., the impugned order has been

passed by the Tamil Nadu State Coastal Zone Management Authority rendering O.A.No.126 of 2025 infructuous.

2.When a judicial authority is seized of a proceeding, a respondent before the said authority cannot pass an order making the very proceeding infructuous. Taking note of this fact, and also that the compound wall was pre-existing even before the Coastal Zone Management Authority was contemplated by law, I granted interim stay of those proceedings alone. I made it clear in paragraph No.7 of the interim order that the order of stay will not prevent the National Green Tribunal in any manner for proceeding further with O.A.No.126 of 2025. The applicants would have to work out their right independently in the said O.A. They have no right to interfere with this proceeding as they are not the owners of the property. Hence, the Writ Miscellaneous Petition stands dismissed.

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To 1.The Government Of Tamilnadu Represented By its Principal Secretary Department Of Environemnt, Fort St George, Chennai 600 009 2.The Tamil Nadu Coastal Zone Management Authority Represented By Its Member Secretary, Department Of Environment And Climate Change 9th Floor, Cmrl Metros, Anna Salai, Nandanam Chennai 600 035 3.The Chairperson, Tamil Nadu State Coastal Zone Management Authority, Additional Chief Secretary To Government, Environment, Climate Change, And Forest Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009 4.The District Collector District Collector Office, Grand Southern Trunk Road, Chenglapattu District, Tamil Nadu 603 001 5.The District Coastal Zone Management Authority, Represented By Its Member Secretary, Chengalpattu District, Tamil Nadu 603001 6.The Convenor, District Coastal Zone Management Authority, District Environmental Engineer, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Maraimalai Nagar, Chenglapattu, Tamil Nadu 603209

V.LAKSHMINARAYANAN J.

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