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 rural areas, therefore the acts of the respondents itself without the very purpose of the act and therefore direction be given to respondents shall be followed scrupulously and that the existing tree authority shall be abolished, turned down and all its operations shall be restricted till formation of new tree authority as per provisions of Indian Forest Act, 1927;

iii) Permission granted by the Forest Ranger be quashed and set aside and be held as null and void;

iv) The Hon’ble Tribunal may kindly be pleased to call all records and proceeding of tree and detai