285: Aarey Tree-Cutting Reaches SC: What Now That The SC Has Spoken? - a podcast by The Quint

…..So where were we? On the last episode of the big story, we told you what was happening in the aarey colony tree-cutting effort. The last time we spoke, on Friday, the Bombay High Court said that it would allow the cutting and transplanting of 2,646 trees in Mumbai’s Aarey colony. And, that, as held by a previous High Court decision, Aarey is NOT a forest.

Things have moved on at a rather rapid clip from there, and the Supreme Court may have something to do with this. As does the fact that something like 2,000 of those trees, are already gone.

Today we’re picking up where we left off in the Aarey Colony story which has DOMINATED headlines. 

A lot happened over the weekend, including MANY protesters being arrested BUT in a reasonably big victory for the environment and its activists, the Supreme Court stepped in and shut down the plan to chop down trees in Mumbai’s Aarey colony forest. Well, it stopped any MORE trees from being cut down, to be more accurate.

But the worst of the damage may have already been done.

We’ll hear from the people who protested and opposed the tree cutting, the Maharashtra state government and its allies, as well as The Quint’s own legal editor, Vakasha Sachdev.