India, Jan. 9 -- The Delhi government informed the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday that it has directed the Delhi Police to register an FIR against a man for illegally pruning a tree in a park in northwest Delhi's Mangolpuri.

In a submission before the tribunal, the forest department said both the individual and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the land-owning agency in the case, will be required to carry out compensatory plantation of five native tree species each.

The NGT was hearing a plea concerning the illegal headbacking of a fully grown sheesham tree in the area. In a report dated January 6, the forest department said it had instructed the Mangolpuri police station to register an FIR for violation of Section 8 ...