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Delhi Sealing : Mayor announced her “go-slow policy” on demolitions of fourth and fifth floors

January 6th, 2008 admin No comments

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 [...]

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Delhi Sealing : Judges to visit Commonwealth Games Village site

January 3rd, 2008 admin No comments

The Delhi High Court has expressed concern over the alleged violations made by the Centre in choosing the site for the Commonwealth Games 2010 in the vicinity of the Yamuna river and said it will inspect the site.
Justices A.K. Sikri and Rekha Sharma will visit the proposed Commonwealth Games Village site on the Yamuna [...]

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Delhi Sealing : Supreme Court slams judicial overreach

December 11th, 2007 admin No comments

In an unprecedented confession, the Supreme Court has admitted that the judiciary has erred in the recent past in usurping the powers of the executive. Cautioning against judicial activism, it said that if the trend continued, politicians would step in and clip the judiciary’s wings.
“If the judiciary does not exercise restraint and overstretches its [...]

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Over 2000 Kashmiri traders feel heat of MCD sealing

December 5th, 2007 admin No comments

Over 2000 Kashmiri businessmen in Delhi whose establishments have come under Municipal Corporation Delhi sealing have appealed both the Delhi and the state governments for their rehabilitation.
Naqati vehemently rejected the statements carried by a section of press here, which claimed the MCD had absolved the Kashmiri traders at Delhi from sealing their basements. “The [...]

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