Delhi Sealing : Mayor announced her “go-slow policy” on demolitions of fourth and fifth floors
Four days after Delhi Mayor Arti Mehra announced her “go-slow policy” on demolitions of fourth and fifth floors, the MCD today threw an open challenge at the High Court by persistently questioning existence of the court-appointed monitoring committee and nine court commissioners.
The civic agency, represented by senior lawyer and former Union Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, contended that the court should disband the committee and the commissioners. “When MCD is already there, what is the need of a parallel body like the monitoring committee? Prasad argued before the Bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Rekha Sharma.
Hinting at the Supreme Court’s December 6 verdict, in which the Delhi High Court hearings on MCD’s demolition drive was listed as one of the instances of “judicial overreach”, Prasad said the apex court had been long advocating a “healthy respect for each organ of the government”. He said: “There is a clear demarcation of powers between the executive and the judiciary. This separation of powers has to be respected.”
The next hearing sealing of fourth and fifth floors is scheduled for January 11.
Sources : http://www.expressindia.com/