Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter CHOPPING OFF THE LEGACY

FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA 

 THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER 

 CHOPPING OFF THE LEGACY 

 Dr Suresh, an Orthopeadic from Kims Hospital, attempted to chop off a huge tree near his house for the second time but was unsuccessful due to timely intervention of the neighbours. 

 The Doctor who is residing at 67/1, Sri Rama Mandir Road Baswangudi, Bangalore, had already chopped off a huge tree a couple of year ago despite resistance from the neighbours. And this time he decided to go for another chopping of a huge tree on the corner of the road outside his compound wall. But, his neighbours were stiff in resistance. The moment they saw the officials planning to bring down the tree, one of the neighbour, Mr. Taher immediately called up TBMR. Our photographer immediately rushed to the spot and as he started taking pictures at the spot, the officials panicked. Fearing the outcome, all the officials from BESCOM, FOREST and other relative agencies ran helter and skelter leaving the tree un-cut. 

 Taher Siamwala, who did not want the tree to be cut said that even 2 years back, a huge tree was cut by the Doctor. Actually when we resisted he stopped but he then played a smart game. Soon there were Holidays for about 2 or 3 days continuously and the Doctor arranged for the chopping during this time. Though we resisted, he could successfully chop off a huge tree since we could not contact anybody due to Holidays. 

 

However, the Doctor said that he will plant two saplings against the chopping of this tree. He stated that he had chopped off a tree earlier because it was covering his garage and now he wants to remove another huge tree because there are cracks appearing in his house. 

 “This time he has made excuses that there have been cracks in his house due to the tree. However, I have seen his entire house, there is no such damage but mere hair like cracks on the ceilings which is not because of the tree. He actually wants to chop the tree for the sake of outside elevation of his house. There is a definite possibility that he will take another chance during Holidays, like he did earlier to chop off the tree”, added Taher. 

 The TBMR team demanded the order copy for the chopping of the tree from the Doctor who agreed to issue us a Xerox of the same. But then the Doctor spoke to the Deputy Conservator of Forests (R.R.NAGAR) Mr. Venkatesh, who instructed him not to handover the order copy to us. The Doctor then refused to give us the order copy. 

 Taher also said that even during the earlier chopping he had promised to plant 2 trees, but he never did so.