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A Bench of Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narsimha gave the tree authority the liberty to take an appropriate decision on MMRCL's application by imposing suitable conditions.

The Supreme Court allows Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRCL) to pursue its application before the Tree Authority to cut 84 trees at Aarey forest for the metro car shed project, on Tuesday.

The Court said that the tree authority of the BMC will be at liberty to take an independent decision on the felling of trees in Aarey, and impose conditions as deemed fit.

The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited said that it needs to cut the trees to enable the construction of ramps for the trains at the metro car shed.

This time around, the trigger is MMRC's application in the Supreme Court (SC) seeking a directive to get approval from the civic body's Tree Authority on its 2019 application to cut 84 fully grown trees.

The last tree census was conducted in 2016. A total of 8.5 lakh trees were recorded during the last census.

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On average, the BMC receives approximate 600 treefall complaints in a month, between June and September every year

The dispute over the construction of a metro car shed at Aarey goes back to 2014, with Thackeray governments decision to move the car shed to Kanjurmarg being a bone of contention between two former allies