Bombay HC junks pleas seeking forest tag for Aarey, stop tree felling
Bombay HC junks pleas seeking forest tag for Aarey, stop tree felling The HC said it was also dismissing the petitions filed by Bathena and Jadhav against the approval for cutting trees Current Affairs :- In a mishap to ecological activists, the Bombay High Court on Friday would not announce Aarey province a woods and furthermore declined to subdue the BMC tree authority’s choice permitting felling of more than 2,600 trees in the rural green zone to clear route for a metro carshed. A division seat of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre rejected four petitions recorded by NGOs and ecological activists on issues identified with Aarey state in Goregaon, a significant green lung of the city. One of the requests recorded by the city-based NGO Vanshakti looked for that Aarey be proclaimed a woodland and environmentally touchy zone, while another appeal by green lobbyist Zoru Bathena argued the zone be given the status of a floodplain. Two separat...