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A Supreme Court bench led by Justice L Nageswara Rao and including Justices B R Gavai and Aniruddha Bose ruled on 3 June 2022 that each national park or wildlife sanctuary must have an ESZ (Eco Sensitive Zone) of at least one kilometre measured from the demarcated boundary of such protected forest, within which the activities prescribed in the guidelines of 9 February 2011 shall be strictly adhered to. The Court determined that no new permanent buildings are allowed in the ESZ. Case: T N Godavarman Thirumulpad v Union of India and Ors. Residents of the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats filed Writ Petition (C) No. 202 of 1995 under Article 32 of the Constitution, according to the Indian Kanoon website.  The petitioner alleged that respondents of  Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri, Gudalur destroyed th...