Mumbai: Heavy police deployment at Aarey colony; two protestors detained
India | July 25, 2022 14:52 ISTThe Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking has diverted a few buses plying on the route due to felling of trees.
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking has diverted a few buses plying on the route due to felling of trees.
The MVA coalition led by Uddhav Thackeray had decided to move the Metro-3 car shed from Aarey to Kanjurmarg. The construction of car shed at Aarey had been a sticking point between the BJP and Shiv Sena.
A fire broke out at a thicket in the Aarey Colony area of Mumbai on Monday afternoon.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced the scrapping of Aarey metro car shed and said the project will now come up at Kanjurmarg in Mumbai. He also announced that 800 acre of Aarey land has been declared as forest as opposed to 600 earlier.
The cases filed against Aarey metro car shed protesters will be withdrawn within a month, Maharashtra Minister Satej Patil said on Thursday. Patil, the Minister of State for Home, made the remarks after meeting some of the protesters here.
Amid the ongoing controversy over the metro car shed here for line-3 trains, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday stripped Ashwini Bhide from the post of Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), which is implementing the project.
Tree felling at Mumbai's Aarey forest for metro car shed has become a contentious issue. Supreme Court has now extended the interim order prohibiting further tree felling.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government and the MMRDA to not fell trees for its metro construction project in Mumbai till the Bombay High Court takes a decision on the plea of an activist against cutting of trees.
The police had imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) on Saturday, banning unlawful assembly in the area, following protests by activists against the felling of trees in the green zone.
The Mumbai Metro said on Monday that it would honour Supreme Court's direction restraining cutting of any more trees in Aarey colony for a Metro car shed. Giving out the data, the Mumbai Metro said 2,141 trees have already been cut till date, while adding that no more trees will be cut at the contested site.
Supreme Court hearing Aarey Forest case: Justice Arun Mishra asks 'tell us whether it was an eco-sensitive zone or not. It was a no development zone not an eco-sensitive zone. This is what we get, show us the documents'.
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