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Supreme Court said that Delhi government shown lack of sensitivity over protecting the environment. These remarks came while SC was rapping it for granting permission to chop 422 trees.
Supreme Court said that Delhi government shown lack of sensitivity over protecting the environment. These remarks came while SC was rapping it for granting permission to Delhi Development Authority to chop 422 trees to construct a road. A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said it is an admitted position made by the tree officer that he didn’t permit the felling 422 trees.
The top court was hearing a suo motu (on its own) contempt proceedings against the vice chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) over alleged cutting of 1,100 trees in the ridge forest for a road widening project.
The apex court said that the Delhi government must take the blame for granting permission to fell 422 trees though there was no statutory power vesting in the Delhi government to grant such permission.
