India, April 25 -- Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts and National Green Tribunal

NGT slaps hefty fine on Agra, Mathura-Vrindavan Nagar Nigam for polluting Yamuna

In a 200-page judgment, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) Chairperson, Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice Sudhir Agarwal categorically stated that "when polluted sewage is being discharged in River Yamuna and water of the river is being polluted, the violators must be held responsible and should pay environmental compensation for the entire quantity, that is, each litre of such polluted sewage which is being discharged in River Yamuna".

When it comes to the city of Agra, the installed capacity of STPs is 220.75 MLD, while...