DDA protecting higher-ups: Top court

The Supreme Court castigated the Delhi Development Authority on Wednesday for not providing information regarding the visit of Lt Governor VK Saxena to the Ridge area where 1,100 trees were cut and said it was protecting higher-ups and blaming subordinate officers.

A vacation bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan said it was “absolute recklessness” on the part of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) that it could not find a simple document indicating Saxena’s visit on February 3.

“This is absolute recklessness on your part. You cannot find a simple document. Nothing has been done, no meeting of the officers has been called. I really hope that the vice-chairman is taking the matter seriously. We have all the doubts in the way things are done. We see that the first part of the e-mail which talks about the L-G being visited is correct…,” the bench said.