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Lakhimpur Kheri: Supreme Court to hear today PIL seeking fair probe

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Lakhimpur Kheri: Supreme Court to hear today PIL seeking fair probe

The Supreme Court will hear a Public Interest litigation (PIL) on the violent incident that resulted in the deaths of eight people in Lakhimpur Kheri , Uttar Pradesh earlier this month, including four farmers and a journalist on Wednesday.

The court accepted the case, and at the last hearing, due to the unsatisfactory progress of the investigation, the son of the Union Minister was one of the main defendants in the incident. The Union Minister of the Interior, Ashish Mishra, was arrested by the police six days after being charged in the Tikunia village of Lakhimpur Kheri. He received a series of interrogation summons and was sharply criticized by the opposition. , They claimed that the police action was postponed due to the defendant’s political status.

The Supreme Court also expressed dissatisfaction with the investigation conducted by the state government in this case and requested the UP government to instruct its state police chief to ensure that the evidence in the case is protected until another agency takes over. Currently, a special investigation team (SIT) set up by the Yogi Adityanath government is investigating the Kheri incident. The team released photos of six people standing near the SUV that caught fire in the October 3 incident on Tuesday.

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SIT official as saying: “The SIT team investigating the violence on October 3 got some photos and videos” agency. “We are posting photos and calling people to recognize them. Six photos have been posted for recognition.” So far, 10 people including Ashish Mishra have been arrested in connection with the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri.

The farmer claimed that Mishra appeared in one of the vehicles that ran over the group of people in the incident. However, the son of the Union Minister denied the allegation, but claimed that he was participating in a wrestling match in Banbirpur at the time.

News Source : Hindustan Times

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Suprme Court pulls up Delhi body for not conducting tree census

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Suprme Court pulls up Delhi body for not conducting tree census

The court said that it will order the constitution of an expert body to vet every proposal for tree felling in the city

The Supreme Court on Friday pulled up the Delhi Tree Authority (DTA) for failing to carry out a tree census in the Capital as required under the Delhi Tree Preservation Act (DTPA). The court added that it will order the constitution of an expert body to vet every proposal for tree felling in the city, observing that DTA lacks the expertise to do this job.

A bench headed by justice Abhay S Oka was considering an application filed by a Delhi resident, Bhavreen Kandhari, which raised questions over the performance of DTA — a statutory body under DTPA that has allowed more than 60,000 trees to be felled between 2015 and 2021. The court had issued notice on the application on November 8 as the data presented by Kandhari suggested that Delhi was losing five trees every hour.

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On Friday, the bench, also comprising justice Augustine George Masih, took up DTA’s response and said, “We want to know how DTA is functioning. Has it carried out any census of trees?” The court cited Section 7 of DTPA, 1994 (or is it 1995), which says “carrying out census of the existing trees” and “preservation of all trees” in Delhi is one of the functions of DTA.

“We intend to pass an order that no permission for tree cutting shall be passed unless it is vetted by this expert body. Unless there is a record of the number of trees, nothing can be done. Has this been undertaken? It was the duty of DTA to do this under the Act,” the court said.

The bench asked senior advocate Guru Krishnakumar, who was assisting the court as amicus, to indicate whether there should be a threshold, such as cutting of 100 or more trees, when an issue can be sent for consideration to the expert body. “Considering the diminishing green cover, we are considering whether a body of experts should consider every permission for felling of trees. We will pass orders that no permission for tree felling shall be passed unless vetted by this body. Some threshold can be fixed and DTA will have to comply with the recommendation made by the expert body,” the court said.

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