The Supreme Court today directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to seal all commercial establishments in Delhis unauthorised colonies within three weeks.
New Delhi, Aug 27 : The Supreme Court today directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to seal all commercial establishments in Delhi's unauthorised colonies within three weeks.
A three-judge Bench comprising of Justices Arijit Pasayat, C K Thakker and Lokeshwar Singh Panta, asked MCD to stop business activities in over 1500 unauthorised colonies across Delhi.
The Bench, however, exempted establishments having maximum area of 20 square meters and falling under the 24 exempted categories from sealing.
On August 24, an apex Bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice D.K. Jain had warned the Centre and the MCD of contempt proceedings if they failed to carry out the sealing drive against commercial establishments in the unauthorised colonies.
MCD counsel had filed applications seeking stay of the sealing operations against commercial establishments in unauthorised colonies till the Centre approved a proposal for regularising them.
Counsel had told the Bench that the matter was under consideration of the Cabinet and hence the directions for sealing could be stayed.
On August 14, the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee had directed the MCD to begin from August 20 sealing of all commercial structures in unauthorised colonies.
ANI