LUCKNOW, Jan. 7 -- Taking a strong note of not complying with its earlier order, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the additional chief secretary/principal secretary (forest) UP, principal secretary (horticulture), principal chief conservator of forests and the divisional forest officer, Lucknow, to appear before it in person on January 13 in the matter of geo-tagging and felling of trees in the mango belt area here. The court also imposed a further cost of Rs 25,000 on the state authorities. The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary on January 5 in response to a PIL filed in 2013 by a local lawyer JS Tomar seeking directives for geo-tagging and check on felling trees in the mango belt area here. Earlier, the court had sought a reply from state authorities in the matter. When no response was filed on November 12, 2025, the court had imposed Rs 15k cost on the state authorities for the same and again directed them to file a reply. On January 5, 2026, the state counsel informed the court that she had no instructions as to whether the cost had been deposited or not. She also said she had not received any instructions nor any affidavit had been filed by the state authorities after the court's earlier order.htc...