A day after the Chandigarh Administration began the process of removal of trees to clear the site for construction of Tribune flyover, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday stayed the uprooting of trees along with the construction process.
The stay order by the Bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha and Justice Rajiv Sharma came on an application filed by the “Run Club” for restraining the Chandigarh Administration and other respondents from cutting the trees existing on both sides of Dakshin Marg and Purv Marg for the construction of Tribune flyover.
In its order, the HC took note of the contention that the process of setting up the flyover was being carried out without making necessary amendments in the Chandigarh’s master plan.
The applicant, through senior advocate Puneet Bali, told the Court that cutting of trees would cause irreparable harm to the environment. Terming the plan to replant the mature trees as non-feasible, he said that efforts in the past to ensure re-plantation had miserably failed.
