Tree felling: SC says no activity till further orders

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Telangana government to explain the "compelling urgency" for clearing a large tree cover on a land parcel next to the University of Hyderabad and stayed any future activity till further orders.

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A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih, which took suo motu cognisance of the state's tree-felling drive in Kancha Gachibowli Forest, called it a "very serious" matter.

It said the interim report placed before it by the registrar (judicial) of the Telangana High Court depicted an "alarming picture" as a huge number of trees were being felled aside from the deployment of huge machineries.