Special hearing on Monday over Mumbai tree-cutting: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hold a unique hearing on Monday over the Maharashtra government’s choice to fell more than 2,000 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony to manufacture a Metro Rail yard.

The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. The zenith court took the choice dependent on a letter kept in touch with Chief Justice of India on Sunday by a gathering of understudies concerning “felling of trees in Aarey woods”, enlisting it as a Public Interest Litigation.

Through the letter, the understudies mentioned the CJI to take “perception of the Aarey matter for a stay on tree-cutting out embraced by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai with Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation and Mumbai Police”.

“The present portrayal is made by an assignment of capable understudies who are sorry to learn you during the excursion yet having no other alternative and in earnestness we went to the gatekeeper of constitution valeus anticipating alleviation,” the letter peruses.

“This letter is for your pressing and kind consideration into issue concerning Aarey Forest in Mumbai. We accept that no method or details can banish us from coming to Supreme Court, your lordship. (In any case, By the time an intrigue is recorded in the Supreme Court, we feel the piece of Aarey will be cleared with all trees cut out prompting irreversible misfortune. As we compose this letter to you, the Mumbai specialists keep on slaughtering the lungs of Mumbai by clearing the trees of Aarey woods close Mithi Bank waterway.”

After a colossal furor by earthy people challenging tree cutting inside the Aarey Colony, the Mumbai Police on Saturday captured 29 activists, including six ladies. The challenges were to restrict the felling of around 2,646 trees and the activists guaranteed that in excess of 1,000 trees have just been chopped down.

The activists increased their challenges after the Bombay High Court on Friday rejected all petitions with respect to the felling of the trees by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL) in the green zone to develop a vehicle shed for the Metro-3 task.