India: Vellore Citizens Welfare Forum v. Union of India, [1996] 5 S.C.C. 647 (sustainable development, polluter pays, precautionary principle)


(the Court in this case referred to the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and other nonbinding agreements as having been transformed into ''Custoary International Law though [their] salient feature[s] have yet to be finalised by the International law Jurists.''

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