No permission to cut trees at Cantonment railway station: Bengaluru police

Bengaluru: Environmentalists alerted High Grounds police after JCBs arrived at the Cantonment railway station and unnumbered small trees and saplings were reportedly being cut.

Police reached the spot and clarified that there was no permit from the Forest Department to cut trees in the Cantonment station.

The railway department told an environmentalist present that no trees were being cut and that only shrubs and weeds were being cleared as part of cleaning work.

The department is attempting to transform the Cantonment area, a move that will involve cutting 368 grown trees.

The 8.6-acre Cantonment area was declared a heritage site in September, but the order was later rolled back.