FC-0019Fictions · Environment · Wanted
Open question
Can a river be a person, and who pays when it floods?
Rivers and Nature as Legal Persons
Scope
High Court declarations that rivers, glaciers and animals are legal persons, and their fate on appeal.
Authorities to start from
- Mohd. Salim v. State of Uttarakhand, 2017 SCC OnLine Utt 367
- Animal Welfare Board of India v. A. Nagaraja, (2014) 7 SCC 547
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