The Delhi Excessive Courtroom on Monday issued a discover to the Public Works Division (PWD) and the Delhi Police on a petition relating to the harm that occurred to a tree within the Rohini space throughout highway building.
Looking for response of the authorities, together with the PWD engineer-in-chief, government engineers, the secretary and deputy commissioner of police, the station home officer, and the tree officer, justice Najmi Waziri issued the discover on a contempt petition filed by New Delhi Nature Society.
The bench checked the photographs submitted by the petitioner and famous the concrete on the roots of a tree. The court docket got here closely on the officers on the matter, mentioning related petitions.
Notably, the identical bench had earlier expressed considerations over tree felling and destruction of greenery within the nationwide capital, which is susceptible to air air pollution.
Earlier in June, expressing its anguish over the damages to the inexperienced cowl within the nationwide capital in the course of the current thunderstorm, the bench held the officers accountable for the dearth of care which led to concretisation round bushes that weakened their roots and brought about heavy harm.
Justice Waziri additionally got here down closely on the authorities, saying the Public Works Division got here and really encroached as much as the neck of those bushes.
In one other listening to additionally, he had careworn the significance of the bushes.
“On this capital metropolis with its ever-burgeoning inhabitants, the cacophony of voices and rampant commercialisation of each different avenue, robbing the residents of the acquainted atmosphere of their residential neighbourhood, the ever-increasing motor-vehicular site visitors, the choking air air pollution and the ever-creeping concretisation, bushes maintain out as welcome and assuring residing entities of hope, sanity, environmental redemption and even companionship. The extra solitary the tree, the larger its significance,” he had mentioned.
–IANS
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