We had told them to leave some space for the tree and not cut it. " A residential colony is being built on the piece of land where the tree stands. Residential colony on land where the tree stands Ajay Kumar claimed that it was the work of the land mafia. Seeing it in a state like this is painful, an elderly person from the village said.
You can imagine how old the tree must have been," he said. “My grandmother, who was 90, and died a few years back, used to tell us that when she came to this village after her marriage, the tree was there. His nephew, Mukesh, said their family has lived in the area for nearly 200 years. Kumar said that Khampur is his ancestral village and many generations of his family have lived there. Nearly five to six branches of the tree which were around six inches wide were trimmed." © Provided by Indiatimes After we were done, we got to know that the tree had been trimmed. The villagers approached the police after the issue came to light on Friday.Ījay Kumar, a resident of the area, told news agency PTI, “My father had passed away and we were busy with the rituals.
Locals of the village said they have an emotional attachment with the tree and worship it during festivals while some of them blamed the local land mafia for the incident. Residents of Khampur village in Delhi’s Alipur are keeping a strict vigil on a 120-year-old ‘sacred’ banyan tree in the area after it was trimmed by unidentified people while they were asleep.