NATIONAL GREEN TRIBUNAL KOLKATA (EASTERN ZONE BENCH)
B. Amit Sthalekar, Judicial Member, Arun Kumar Verma, Expert Member
Nirmal Kumar Singha – Appellant
Versus
State of West Bengal – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. applicant's grievances on illegal tree felling (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7) |
| 2. police investigation into tree cutting complaint (Para 8 , 16 , 19 , 20) |
| 3. land acquisition and tree valuation for highway (Para 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15) |
| 4. forest department permissions and compliance issues (Para 17 , 18 , 21 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28) |
| 5. pending high court writ petition (Para 23 , 24) |
| 6. eucalyptus/akashmoni exempt from felling restrictions (Para 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34) |
| 7. application dismissed, no merit found (Para 35 , 36 , 37) |
ORDER
1. The Applicant in the present Original Application is aggrieved by the illegal cutting of about 938 trees in the district Bankura. His case is that he had planted 1100 trees on plot No.815, Mouza – Kapila, JL. No.105, Police Station – Gangajalghati, District –Bankura and out of these 1100 trees, 938 trees have survived and are growing due to the care taken by the Applicant.
2. The relief claimed in the present Original Application reads as under:-
i) The application/petition be allowed as above with all reliefs.
ii) That the said act is enacted by the legislature for special purpose of curbing illegal axing of trees within rur
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