New Delhi:, Aug. 7 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday pulled up the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the Standing Committee of National Board for Wildlife (SC-NBWL) for "making a mockery of the system" by granting back-to-back clearance, in a gap of 48 hours, to the proposal for rationalisation of the Sariska tiger reserve boundaries.

A bench headed by chief justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R Gavai sent the proposal back to the apex expert bodies for fresh consideration and posted the matter to next week.

"We reposed such great faith in NTCA and SC-NBWL thinking they are experts as we expected them to do some deliberation on this issue. But they are acting like a post office," the bench, also comprising justices K Vinod Cha...