Plea to SC: Relocate Games complex

  • 07/05/2008

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

The Commonwealth Games basketball and squash courts, being built in Siri forest area in south Delhi, should be relocated to another site as it involved large-scale cutting of full-grown trees, amicus curiae Harish Salve said in his fresh plea before the Supreme Court. The application, which is scheduled to be heard by the Forest Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices Arijit Pasayat and S H Kapadia on Friday, said already 836 trees, each over 100-years-old, were cut to make way for the 30,000 sq metre concrete courts for the games. To complete the project, it would require cutting 100-odd more trees from the forest area, which is the lone lung space for south Delhi, the application filed through advocate A D N Rao said.