Mumbai: Tree ‘poisoned’ near Powai coffee shop, owner booked – Times of India

Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against the owner of a coffee shop, an Indian café chain, for allegedly poisoning a tree outside his premises in Powai.
The case was registered after an official from the BMC Gardens department carried out a probe based on a complaint it has received last June on Twitter. A non-cognizable offence had been registered on July 1, 2020. Later the police sought permission from the metropolitan magistrate court to probe the matter, and accordingly, the FIR was registered against the coffee shop owner on Monday.
Last year on June 25, civic officials got a tip-off on Twitter that the owner of a coffee shop had put up metal sheets around a tree and poisoned it. “A probe revealed that the tree had withered,” said a police officer. The accused has been booked under MaharashtraTree Protection and Preservation Act. No arrest has been made yet. TNN