New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has rebuked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, calling it ‘irresponsible’, after the civic body submitted that it has no control over the pruning of trees in the national capital. A bench of Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member A Senthil Vel was hearing the petition alleging illegal lopping and pollarding (pruning) of more than 250 trees in various blocks of west Delhi’s Paschim Vihar. In an order dated October 31, the tribunal said, “MCD submits that as per the terms of the contract, material from the pruning was given to the contractor and it was his responsibility and MCD has no control over it.” “We find such a stand of MCD an irresponsible stand because the condition of pruning imposed by the Tree Officer was required to be complied with by the principal and the agent both,” it said.