New Delhi, May 29 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday held the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) guilty of contempt for wilful disobedience of the court's order banning felling of trees in the capital's Ridge area for widening of an approach road for a paramilitary forces' hospital and ordered extensive afforestation.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh, which imposed a fine of '25,000 on the errant DDA officials for contempt of court, however, said that though the misadventure undertaken by them was in clear contravention of this court's orders but the underlying objective of having a broader approach roads for Central Armed Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences (CAPFIMS) appears to be not in bad faith.
"We are thus l...