New Delhi, April 17 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday rapped the Telangana government over its rushed action to fell trees on a land parcel next to the University of Hyderabad and directed it to submit a specific plan to restore the 100 acres of deforested land if it wanted its chief secretary "to be saved from any severe action."
Questioning the Congress government over its "tearing urgency" to cut the trees, the top court also said it would go "out of the way" for the protection of the environment.
Making it clear that the apex court's first concern was restoration of the environment, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih said not a single tree more should be felled on this land in the Kancha Gachibowli forest area.
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