Meanwhile, Centre for Human Rights, an ngo in Rohini also filed a petition in NGT on the same issue which was heard on Friday. The principal bench of NGT headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notices to the chief secretary, Uttar Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board, district magistrate and senior superintendent of police, Greater Noida and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) directing them to file a report on the rising cancer cases in certain villages of Greater Noida. Gaurav Bansal, the lawyer representing Centre for Human Rights said "the petition is about lack of treatment of effluents and disease outbreak in the villages due to contaminated groundwater."

The petition filed by Yogesh Nagar, who heads an organization named Jai Ho Sankalp Seva Ka, at the principal bench of NGT alleges that several industries located in Greater Noida have violated the Water (prevention and control of pollution) Act of 1974 and the Environment Protection Act of 1986 stating that the violation of these laws by several industries in the vicinity has led to severe health issues among the villagers because of cancer and other deadly diseases.

Meanwhile, responding to the application by Nagar, GNIDA ACEO, Harish Verma said, "Greater Noida has always and only allowed non-polluting industries to be set up. To our knowledge, there is no polluting industry in Greater Noida."

Nagar however said: "I am a resident of the area myself and a witness to the pollution being created in the Chhapraula Industrial area. It is my struggle to make Greater Noida pollution free" Yogesh Nagar, the applicant told TOI. The application states that there are large number of small and big industries and factories are operating in Chhapraula Industrial Area which falls under the Bisrakh Block of Gautam Buddh Nagar. There are about 300 small and big industries in this area and none of them seems to be complying with the environmental norms or any of the provisions of Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.

"Lead battery units often dispose off acid directly contaminating the ground water and also causing air pollution because of lead emissions. Paper mills also seem to discharge their effluents without treatment. There are LED factories and rice processing units that don't follow norms," Nagar said.

The effluents and emissions from Chhapraula Industrial Block has affected the air and groundwater of Khera Dhrampura, Bishnuli, Sadullapur, Sadopur, Achheja, Dujana, Chhapraula, Roja, Jalalpur according to the petition.

"The industries in this area has started their operation for above last 15 years and in last five years the number of industries and expansion of the existing industries has gone up tremendously. The industries in this area are also extracting ground water without any permission resulting in fall in ground water table. The Bisrakh Block has been declared as 'over exploited' by the Central Ground Water Authority has back as in about 2011," Nagar added.

"Many residents of Bisrakh Block are suffering from deadly diseases like cancer, hepatitis, kidney stone and other kidney diseases, skin allergy, jaundice, cholera because of carcinogenic elements present in the ground water. That there is huge rise in number of death because of cancer in last five years. In village Dujana, the death from a cancer in last five years only is about 50 persons. At present there are eight more residents of this village who are suffering from the cancer of one form or other. Further, in village Sadopur there are about 34 death because of cancer and about seven residents of the village are suffering with cancer. There may be many others who might be suffering from either cancer or other deadly diseases but no checkup has been done of the residents," the application states.