India, Aug. 5 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL) to fell 847 mangroves and 196 other trees and divert 3.3561 hectares of forest land for construction of a high voltage overhead transmission line from Dahanu to Ambesarai for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor, also known as the bullet train project.

The division bench of acting chief justice Ravindra Ghuge and justice Gautam Ankhad allowed the MSETCL's plea considering that the transmission line and the Ambeserai traction sub-station were integral to the high speed rail corridor, a project of national importance, and the proposal for diversion of mangroves and felling of trees had been scrutinised ...