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The Supreme Court Friday projected to acceptable up a committee of experts and said it would nonstop that the support granted for felling of trees successful Delhi would not beryllium implemented without the panel’s nod.
Referring to the depleting histrion screen successful the nationalist capital, the apex tribunal observed the committee of experts would look into the support granted by the histrion authorization and the histrion officers appointed nether the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act, 1994.
“We are going to walk an bid that support granted for felling of trees volition not beryllium acted upon unless the committee vets it. It volition beryllium taxable to the suggestions made by the committee,” a seat of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said, adding that the tribunal would besides laic down a related criteria.
The seat was proceeding an exertion seeking to restrain the Delhi authorities from allowing felling of trees without the apex court’s permission.
“We privation to cognize however the histrion authorization is functioning,” the seat said astatine the outset. Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the histrion authority, informed an affidavit was filed successful the matter.
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