 "Construction site of the Metro train parking shed at Aarey Colony. ( Photo: PTI)")
One would imagine that an area of about 33 rugby stadiums with nearly 3,000 trees would be easy to classify as a forest — but it’s not so easy under the laws of the land.
This was the bone of contention in the Aarey Colony case — is the green cover in Mumbai a forest or not? On October 4, the Bombay High Court (HC) refused to declare it a forest and declined to squash the Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s decision to fell 2,600 trees to set up a metro car shed. By the time the Supreme Court stepped in this
