India, Jan. 6 -- Observing that the authorities have indulged in "persistent negligence", the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Uttarakhand Government to file a comprehensive report, including the site plan, disclosing approximate details of illegal constructions which have come up on the forest land in the State.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi on December 22 expressed serious concern over the alleged large-scale and systematic grabbing of forest land in Uttarakhand and proposed to expand the scope of proceedings suo motu to examine, what it termed, a shocking failure of the State machinery to protect the forest land.

The bench said the State authorities, apparently in collusion with land-grabbers, first...