10K trees to be planted across Delhi from money recovered from defaulters

Trees serve as "carbon sump by absorbing pollution which plagues the city all year round, the Delhi High Court has observed while directing plantation of 10,000 trees across the national capital by utilising over Rs 70 lakh deposited by defaulting litigants as costs in several matters.

Justice Najmi Waziri, who said such monies that are deposited in court are to be utilised for the larger public good, appointed four lawyers as court commissioners to identify the sites for the drive, preferably public roads.

The judge observed that trees would incessantly and silently provide multiple benefits to the city and generations of its residents for as long as they are alive as not only would they serve as carbon sump to absorb pollution which plagues the city all year round but also lend beauty and grace.

Over Rs 70 lakh are to be transferred into the bank account of the Deputy Conservator of Forests (DCF), GNCTD... Let the said monies be utilised by the DCF, with the assistance of PWD, ..