Aarey: Supreme Court to hear case today
New Delhi: A special bench of the Supreme Court is all set to hear the case related to the chopping down of trees in Mumbai's Aarey colony for the city's metro rail project on Monday.
Another city court has granted conditional bail to 29 activists who were arrested recently after they protested against chopping down of trees.
They alleged that the cutting down of trees was illegal.
The two-judge bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Bhushan was constituted after a group of law students wrote to Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi seeking the top court's intervention in the matter and the cutting of trees to be suspended immediately, reported NDTV.
Last week, activists started gathering at Aarey colony after a video showing a tree being cut went viral, alleging that act illegal.
After the video went viral, Shiv Sena scion Aditya Thackeray spoke in favour of the activists and supported their resistance to "illegal" felling of trees by MCGM calling the act shameful.
Environmentalists have been protesting the decision to build metro rail depot at the Aarey Colony which has more than five lakh trees.
The Bombay High Court dismissed the petition against felling of trees saying it cannot intervene in the matter as the case is pending before the Supreme Court and the National Green Tribunal.
The Aarey protests have attracted massive attention in Mumbai with celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar coming out in favour of the government.
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