By Sharad Gupta

In a most awaited hearing on Friday, July 12, 2024 the Supreme Court castigated Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, Delhi Government and Delhi Development Authority for illegally felling 1051 trees in Delhi’s South Ridge, also known as Delhi’s one of the three lungs. It also ordered real-time monitoring of Delhi’s forests with help of modern technology so that not a single tree is felled illegally.

When no one gave a categorical answer, the court directed the DDA to file an affidavit clearly stating whether it cut down the trees on its own or on instructions of the LG. “You have to tell the truth to the Court”. It also directed the contractor Satyapal Brothers to reveal on whose instructions did they fell so many green trees.

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