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The High Court of Karnataka connected Wednesday directed the Ministry of Railways not to chopped trees without support astatine Cantonment Railway Colony, situated other the Cantonment Railway Station successful Bengaluru, for the projected constructions.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha passed the interim bid connected a PIL petition filed by erstwhile MLA A.T. Ramaswamy and 3 others.
The petitioner had sought a absorption from the tribunal to quash a December 16, 2025, notification issued by the State authorities withdrawing its earlier notification of September 10, 2025, successful which an 8.61-acre greenish country with 371 trees adjacent to the presumption was declared arsenic a biodiversity practice tract nether Section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act, 2002.
Without consent
During the hearing, Additional Solicitor-General (ASG) of India K. Arvind Kamath told the Bench that the State authorities rightly withdrew the notification connected declaration of the biodiversity parkland arsenic it was issued without the consent of the Central government.
On the apprehension of the petitioners that the trees would beryllium chopped immoderate time, the ASG said that the petition was premature arsenic Railways had lone filed an exertion seeking support for cutting definite trees. Recording the submissions made by the ASG, the Bench adjourned further proceeding till February 13, 2026.
