PNP 1 CA3-12.1.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.3 OF 2011 IN PIL NO.93 OF 2009 Deepak Balkrishna Vahikar and another ..Petitioners. vs. The State of Maharashtra and others ..Respondents. vs. Bhanudas Mane, Dy. 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 two trees and to transplant twenty two trees. The permission has been sought for the purposes of effecting the development of a 24 meter vide D.P. Road as shown in the approved development plan for Pune city. The Court is informed by the learned counsel and in paragraph 6 of the Application it has been stated that 72 trees of local species have already been planted by the Corporation; that the tree officer of the Municipal Corporation PNP 2 CA3-12.1.sxw 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 process of transplantation. The tree officer shall also be personally responsible for the proper maintenance of the trees which have been freshly planted. 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.)