PNP 1 CA5-12.1.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.5 OF 2011 IN PIL NO.93 OF 2009 Deepak Balkrishna Vahikar and another ..Petitioners. vs. The State of Maharashtra and others ..Respondents. vs. The Tree Officer, In-charge, Dy. Municipal Commissioner, PMC, Pune and another ..Applicants. ..... Dr. Sadhna Mahashabde for the Applicants, Respondents 2 and 3 in the Petition. Ms. Vrunda Surve i/b Mr. P. P. Killedar for the Petitioners. Mr. V.A. Sonpal, A Panel counsel for Respondents 1 and 4. ‘ ’ ...... CORAM : DR.D.Y.CHANDRACHUD & ANOOP V. MOHTA , JJ. 12 January 2011. P.C. : The Pune Municipal Corporation has sought the permission of the Court to fell 14 trees and to transplant 46 trees. The Corporation has planted 180 new trees. The Court is informed by the learned counsel that the tree officer of the Municipal Corporation shall be personally liable for ensuring that the trees which are to be transplanted are properly transplanted in a scientific manner and that the trees upon being transplanted shall be maintained properly under his supervision and direction and to ensure that the trees survive the PNP 2 CA5-12.1.sxw process of transplantation. The tree officer shall also be personally responsible for the proper maintenance of the trees which have been freshly planted. The tree officer shall ensure that the work of transplantation is carried out by a duly authorized agency having sufficient experience in the field. An undertaking to that effect shall be filed by the tree officer on the record of this Civil Application within two weeks from today. Subject to the aforesaid, the Civil Application is made absolute in terms of prayer clauses (a) and (b). (Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, J.) (Anoop V. Mohta, J.)