India, April 28 -- The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the Delhi government and Delhi Police on a plea alleging that a parcel of land in south Delhi's Asola - notified as forest land in 1994 - was wrongly allotted to the Delhi Police for a Fatehpur Beri police station in 2015, and subsequently de-notified in 2025.

Questioning the legality of the de-notification, the applicant has sought action against Delhi Police and government officials responsible for the alleged illegal allotment and subsequent change in land status.

On April 22, a bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava heard the matter filed by Delhi resident Devender against the forest settlement officer of the Delhi government.

According ...