India, July 29 -- While the Pune Police Commissionerate is currently constructing a green-compliant, state-of-the-art headquarters at the existing campus near Sadhu Vaswani Mission, the police have clarified that most of the 72 trees at the premises, many of them nearly a century old, will be transplanted rather than felled to clear space for construction of the new building. Only exotic or commercially non-native species will be razed and that too, after obtaining due permission from the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC's) tree authority committee.

Speaking on the ecological concerns, additional commissioner (administration) Sanjay Patil, said, "A decision on the transplantation of 72 trees will be taken after a meeting with the PMC's ...