No tree will be felled for defence expo, UP Government assures Supreme Court

New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government informed the Supreme Court on Thursday it is not considering felling early 64,000 trees for a defense exhibition scheduled in Lucknow.

A bench, headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai and Surya Kant, recorded the statement of the advocates appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government stating the government has already shelved the plan to cut trees, and not a single tree has been felled so far in order to facilitate the arrangements for the defense expo.

Sheela Barse, an environment activist, had moved the apex court seeking a direction to the UP government to shelve its plan to cut down thousands of trees. The top court asked the petitioner to move the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court. Barse sought the declaration of the inter-generational equity rights of trees and also recognition of the trees as living entities, which are entitled to rights. (IANS)

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