Pasumai Thayagam Foundation, a non-governmental organisation led by Sowmiya Anbumani, has filed a public interest litigation petition in the Madras High Court to restrain Southern Railway from felling trees, without following Supreme guidelines, for the expansion of Egmore Railway Station in Chennai.
The PIL petition is expected to be listed for admission before the first Division Bench of Chief Justice S.V. Gangapurwala and Justice P.D. Audikesavalu on June 14 as the judges acceded to a request made by petitioner’s advocate K. Balu for an early hearing of the matter considering the urgency involved.
In its affidavit, the NGO claimed that nearly 200 trees had been felled for the expansion of the Egmore railway station and there was a plan to fell 400 more. It feared that such mass felling would cause great harm to the environment in the city.
