Aarey Protests: Meet The Law Student Who Moved SC To Stop Cutting Of Trees

When scores of trees were axed at Mumbai’s Aarey forest to make way for a metro car shed, Rishav Ranjan, a law student from Greater Noida moved the Supreme Court to stop the felling of trees. Rishav wrote a letter to the Chief Justice of India requesting him to put a stay on the works of MMRCL, BMC and Maharashtra govt. The apex court ordered a stay on the felling of trees. It also directed the govt to release all those people who were arrested during the protest. MMRCL says that the cutting of trees was ‘inevitable’to pave the way for a ‘new life and creation’. The case will now be heard by the Supreme Court on October 21