The petitioners approached the court after being denied compensation for the red sandalwood tree, other trees, and underground pipelines on their land, even though the amount for the land itself ...

The Central Railway was ordered by the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court to deposit Rs 1 crore as interim compensation for a 100-year-old red sandalwood tree on a farmer's land. The railway ...

It was only in 2013-14, during a railway survey for a proposed route, that a group of officials from Karnataka accompanying the survey team recognized the tree as Rakta Chandan (Red Sandalwood), a ...