Summary:
"There was so much public odium that everyone tried to back out," Senior Counsel Aspi Chinoy told the division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre. He was referring to the expert who had changed his opinion on the transplantation of 623 Subabul trees. At first, the expert had given in writing that these can be transplanted with 100% success but had changed his stand in two days saying they can't be transplanted. He also told the court that 50% of the experts' recommendations were accepted. Dwarkadas raised the point that the low survival rate of transplanted trees in earlier projects, due to neglect, were among the serious objections not answered to by TA..