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Aarey protest: Conditional bail for 29 protesters

Published On Mon, Oct 7th, 2019

by Santanu Mukherjee

Aarey protest: Conditional bail for 29 protesters

A sessions court in Mumbai on Sunday granted bail to 29 protesters arrested over the last two days on charges of allegedly obstructing and assaulting police personnel on duty during protests against felling of trees at Aarey Colony. Additional sessions court judge H C Shende of the holiday court ordered their release on certain conditions […]

HC dismisses petitions on Aarey, says ‘greens have failed’

Published On Sat, Oct 5th, 2019

by Santanu Mukherjee

HC dismisses petitions on Aarey, says ‘greens have failed’

“The greens (environmentalists) have failed,” the Bombay High Court said on Friday, while refusing to declare Aarey Colony a forest and declining to quash the BMC tree authority’s decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the green zone to set up a metro carshed. The court imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on Shiv […]