Pollution boards can impose damages: SC

Pollution control boards are constitutionally empowered to impose and collect restitutionary or compensatory damages under the Water and Air Acts for actual or potential harm to the environment—not merely punitive penalties— the Supreme Court said in a landmark ruling that redefines the powers of environmental regulators.

- Utkarsh Anand

While setting aside a 2012 ruling of the Delhi high court that stripped pollution co