ASSOCIATED PRESS Children hold a placard during a protest against cutting down of trees for a proposed metro car shed project at Aarey Colony in Mumbai, Oct. 6, 2019. “Don’t cut anything now,” the special bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Ashok Bhushan said while hearing a plea against the tree felling. Petitioners told the top court that Aarey forest was deemed as “unclassified forest” by the Maharashtra government and felling of trees was illegal. While the petitioners said Aarey an eco-sensitive zone, the court said it was not and the area was, in fact, a no development zone. The state government told the court all those arrested had been released, PTI said.

Source: Huffington Post October 07, 2019 07:07 UTC