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The Supreme Court of India has fined a man Rs 1 lakh for each of the 454 illegally cut trees in the protected Taj Trapezium Zone. The court stated that cutting a large number of trees is worse than killing a human. The bench also noted it would take at least 100 years to regrow the trees and allowed the man to plant new trees as a form of restitution.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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