Jaipur, April 26 -- The Rajasthan High Court has imposed interim stay on cutting of trees in the sacred forest grove along the Baiya village in the Fatehgarh region of Jaisalmer district.
A division bench, comprising Justices Dr Pushpendra Singh Bhati and Sandeep Shah, while imposing stay order recently, held that not even a single tree could be cut in the 2,587 bigha forest grove until further order by the court, for vacating the stay.
The state government and a private solar energy company has pleaded before the court that the grove in reference (Revenue record Khasra no 386) is not recorded as sacred forest grove, in the latest revenue. Accordingly, the company was carrying solar energy panels installation abiding by all rules and affo...