Abstract
Sustainable development underlines strong bias for economic development and essentially promotes an idea that professes salvation by technology. Careful research has already revealed that this prophesy stands on a shaky and uncertain ground. The institutionalisation of the concept of sustainable development has been employed to forge a balance between the need to live within ecological limits and the agenda of progress. The Apex Court cemented the concept into a right framework by reading it as part of ‘right to life’ under the Constitution. This article, therefore, explores the role of judiciary, particularly in balancing competing rights between development and environment while using sustainable development as principal decisive factor. This article explores the juridification of ‘sustainable development’ in the Indian legal landscape. Further, it attempts to identify judicial intervention in different phases from introducing the concept to further cementing it in the fabric of environmental jurisprudence in order to draw a balance between development and environment. In conclusion, it enjoins immense trust on the judiciary in balancing the competing interest by progressive application of the concept of sustainable development in the backdrop of new-age environmental challenges.
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