Bureaucrats lying to protect L-G, says AAP on felling of trees in Satbari Ridge

Bharadwaj further alleged Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar and the L-G were “trying to fool people and the apex court by saying they did not know that permission was required to cut the trees”. “The L-G has been here in Delhi for two years and he says he did not know about tree-cutting permission…how is this possible?,” he said.

Alleging connivance on the part of bureaucrats, he said, “Even if I accept that L-G Saab was not aware that the trees were cut, then did the officers mislead him? The Chief Secretary and others know that permission is needed to cut the trees. Then why has L-G Saab not taken any action till now against these officers? If the trees were cut by misleading L-G … he would have suspended these officers till now.”

No response was immediately available from the L-G or Chief Secretary on the matter.