Bombay High Court asks BMC not to cut trees at Tata Gardens for Coastal Road

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has until May 21 barred BMC from cutting down more trees at the Tata Garden in south Mumbai for the interchange construction of the Mumbai Coastal Road project. A division bench of Justices SJ Kathavalla and SP Tawade heard public interest litigation over concerns over deforestation at the Tata Garden in Breach Kandy for the construction of an interchange on the Mumbai coast. Road project. 

 

Senior counsel Aspi Chinoy and attorney Joel Carlos, appearing for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), told the court. The Tree Authority had issued the order on January 6 this year. Sixty-one trees should be cut down and 79 planted. Chinoi told the court that the felling of trees had already begun and that a few trees had been cut down to date. The court allowed the petitioner to amend their application to question the January 6 order passed by the Tree Authority and posted it on May 21 for further hearing. 

 

Until then, the respondent (BMC) has been barred under the cut-off order. The court said if there are more trees. The Coastal Road is proposed to connect Marine Drive in South Mumbai with Worli at the southern end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. PTI SP NP NP.