Chandigarh, Feb. 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) on Tuesday questioned the Punjab government's move of planting compensatory trees in Mullanpur and Chandigarh University, 20 kilometers away from the Sohana vicinity where trees had been cut.

The HC bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry observed that efforts should have been made for planting the compensatory trees in areas where the trees are being felled.

The court was hearing a clutch of petitions - one seeking the quashing of a Mohali administration decision to cut 251 trees for building three roundabouts near Gurdwara Singh Shaheedan, Sector 78/79, and near CP-67 mall, and another opposing tree cutting for a shopping mall. It was in these proceedings ...