India, Nov. 5 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has carried out compensatory afforestation and planted over 1,000 saplings in west Delhi's Paschim Vihar as ordered by the state forest department, the civic body told the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

MCD was asked to carry out compensatory afforestation for excessive pruning in the area, for which the department has filed an affidavit mentioning that the pruning was done in "good faith" and that the compensatory plantation is not an admittance of guilt or any wrongdoing.

NGT is hearing a plea in which Paschim Vihar resident Khyati Anand had alleged illegal lopping and pruning of more than 250 trees in various blocks in February and March 2024. The forest department, in an affi...