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Vivek Kumar Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh: striking down the forest-species transit exemption

On 1 March 2025, a Full Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court annulled the 2015 notification exempting 62 forest species from the Transit Rules as ultra vires the Indian Forest Act and violative of Articles 14, 21 and 48-A.