The hacked trees

It has been one month since Malabar Hill resident Capt. Pramod Salvi shot off an email to the BMC, asking about why two beautiful, life-giving banyan trees just opposite his building on Dungarsi Road were hacked leaving behind stumps, but has yet to receive an answer. Salvi says, pointing out to a piece of land now sporting tree stumps diagonally opposite the Poornanand building where he lives on the top floor, "People ask me why I want to know about these trees that are gone now. They tell me that the deed is done, why pursue the matter. I tell them, if a murder happens will you say, the deed has been done, why investigate it at all? Killing these trees is the same as murder."