NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Thursday expressed its anguish over the large-scale damage caused to the green cover in the city during the recent thunderstorm, saying that several trees succumbed to the strong winds on account of the callousness of the city authorities.
Justice Najmi Waziri, while dealing with contempt cases concerning the preservation of trees in Mira Marg and Vikas Marg areas, observed that majestic old trees had succumbed to strong winds as their roots had weakened “courtesy largely to the agencies owning the roads or permitting concretisation of the earth around it and, indeed, callously disregarding care, upkeep of the trees”.
