GAUHATI HIGH COURT CLOSES PIL ON HERITAGE TREE FELLING IN ASSAM'S DIGHALIPUKHURI AFTER GOVT DECIDES ON REALIGNMENT OF FLYOVER

The Gauhati High Court in the case Mahesh Deka & 2 Ors. v. The State of Assam & 5 Ors observed and has closed a Public Interest Litigation, PIL wherein the grievance is raised that construction of two arms, connecting the under construction elevated road on GNB Road, would require the old trees aged about hundred years or more in and around Dighalipukhuri pond to be felled down.

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The Division bench comprising of Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi and Justice N. Unni Krishnan Nair was hearing the present matter.

The bench in the case observed that in view of the fact that now the State Government has decided to change the alignment of the two arms, which could have resulted into cutting of the trees, which are hundred years old or more, this court is of the view that the grievance raised by the petitioners in this Public Interest Litigation, PIL petition has already been redressed.