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The Court also held that the auction purchaser was not entitled to either ownership or leasehold rights in respect of the plot and could not claim to be a lessee as the lease in terms of the lease agreement entered into by the DDA was never executed.
“There is not even a single scrap of a document placed on record by the appellant/society to show any kind of legitimacy it exercises, either over the land or the illegal structure built thereon.”
The Supreme Court rejected to halt the demolition of the temple but clarified that the Temple Samiti was not precluded from pursuing its remedies before the High Court in the pending proceedings.
The Court stated that for ascertaining the charges to be recovered from the encroacher, the land-owning authorities shall consider the area of encroached land, period for which the encroached land was illegally used, the market price or circle rate of the encroached area.
“Lord Shiva does not need our protection; rather, we, the people, seek his protection and blessings. There could be no iota of doubt that Lord Shiva would be happier if the Yamuna Riverbed and the flood plains areas are cleared of all encroachments and unauthorized construction.”
“It is necessary that Respondent 1/DDA puts in place a set of guidelines or a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the booking of sites for Ramleela, to prevent situations as had arisen in the year 2023.”
Arbitral proceedings are not cricket matches, where hitting beyond the boundary is usually rewarded
“A public notice dated 4-3-2024 is pasted in the area asking the residents of the Pakistani Hindu Refugee Camp to vacate the place by 6-3-2024, failing which Delhi Development Authority will demolish their Camp.”
It is travesty of justice that an institution contributing for noble cause being that of running a charitable hospital on a public land and providing for sound research and treatment facilities has been made to suffer the rigors of cancellation of the Lease Deed and vacation of the property. Being a constitutional court and the conscience-keeper of the democracy, this Court cannot lend a blind eye when the ends of justice are being bulldozed in broad daylight.
PIO was directed to file a written submission to justify why actions should not be initiated against him/her under section 20 of the RTI Act, 2005 for furnishing misleading and contradictory information.
The National Human Rights Commission, India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report on disappearing water bodies in Delhi due
Supreme Court: While dealing with the question that whether the development agreement between the DDA and the developer Kenneth Builders was frustrated