ORDER

1 A Public Interest Litigation, being PIL No 163 of 2023, was moved before the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay (Parisar Sanrakshan Sanwardhan Sanstha v The Pune Municipal Corporation) on 12 October 2023.

2 The subject of the PIL pertained to the procedure adopted by the Pune Municipal Corporation in granting permission for the felling of trees to facilitate road widening of Ganeshkhind Road. The PIL was disposed of on 12 October 2023 in terms of the following directions:

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It is true that the Tree Authority is the final authority empowered to take a decision in the matter, however, he needs to consider not only the report and recommendations submitted by the Tree Officer, but also the objections and suggestions, which may be filed by the members of the general public. If we examine the facts of the present case in light of Section 8 of the Act of 1975, what we find is that the last date of submission of objections and suggestions by the members of the general public, as per the notice published by the Tree Officer, was 18th September