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Industrial waste water containing organic pollutants is a universal issue due to its hazardous chemical nature. Fabrication of hybrid mixed-matrix is a typical and powerful approach to create new functionalities that cannot be represented by single-phase materials. In present study, we have reported the in-situ growth of zeolite imidazolate frameworks (ZIF-67) on layered double hydroxides (LDH) to form porous composites to develop materials for removal of methylene blue (MB) and methyl orange (MO). Scanning electron spectroscopy showed a sandwich like structure of composite decorated with polyhedrons of ZIF-67. For comparative studies, ZIF-67 and CoAl-LDH were also synthesized and used for adsorptive removal of MB and MO dyes. Results showed that ZIF-67@CoAl-LDH has good adsorption capacity (q_m, 57.24 mg g⁻¹) for methylene blue as compared to LDH (15.04 mg g⁻¹) and ZIF-67 (57.14 mg g⁻¹ …