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Wangdi and expert member Nagin Nanda in the order said: "In view of categorical finding already recorded by the Tribunal that the area where the wall came up and the area where proposed township is to come up is a part of Deopahar Reserve Forest, rehearing on merits is not permissible". "Accordingly, we do not find any ground for review of order dated 24.08.2016," the order said.The 2016 order was passed on the petition filed by environment activist Rohit Choudhury against the boundary wall and the proposed extension of township.NRL in the review application stated that the project had the clearance of the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority which fact was not taken into account by the Tribunal. GUWAHATI: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has dismissed Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL)'s review application of the tribunal's order passed on August 24, 2016 against the boundary wall of the refinery's proposed township.In 2016 the NGT ordered that the wall should be demolished within a period of one month and the proposed township should not come up in the "present location" as the structures were on the elephant corridor and encroached upon the Deopahar proposed reserved forest in Assam 's Golaghat district On August 3 this year, NGT coram of chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel , judicial members Justice Jawad Rahim and Justice S.P..