practice and procedure – Orders passed by the constitutional courts, which would be prevailing over the orders passed by the statutory tribunals – Insofar as the Tribunals are concerned, they would be subordinate to the High Court insofar as the territorial jurisdiction of the High Court is concerned – L. Chandra Kumar v. Union of India and Others, (1995) 1 SCC 400, referred to. [Para 12]
Held, it was not appropriate on the part of the learned NGT to have continued with the proceedings before it, specifically, when it was pointed that the High Court was also in seisin of the matter and had passed an interim order permitting the construction. The conflicting orders passed by the learned NGT and the High Court would lead to an anomalous situation, where the authorities would be faced with a difficulty as to which order they are required to follow.
