In a major boost to the Himachal Pradesh Government, which had rejected a plea by some individuals for cutting hundreds of precious "deodar and kail" trees worth crores on their private forest land, the Supreme Court has stayed the Himachal Pradesh High Court's order granting permission to them. The stay was granted by a Bench comprising Mr Justice Y.K. Sabharwal and Mr Justice H.K. Sema on an appeal filed by the Himachal Government against the high court's February 27, 2002, order.