AARTI vs NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ANR.

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$~58 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 15th April, 2025 + W.P.(C) 4651/2025, CM APPLs. 21520/2025 & 21521/2025 AARTI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Bharat Aggarwal, Advocate. versus NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Raj Kumar, ASC with Mr. Mayank Bamniyal, Advocate for NDMC (Mob. 9810007606). CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE RAJNEESH KUMAR GUPTA Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. 2. The present writ petition has been filed by the Petitioner – Aarti under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of appropriate directions to the Respondents to consider the Petitioner in place of her deceased husband and to accordingly direct the Respondents to permit the Petitioner to participate in the survey being conducted by the Town Vending Committee (hereinafter, TVC). 3. The case of the Petitioner is that her late husband – Mr. Puran Chand was a vendor who was vending in front of Shop No. E-6, E-Block, Inner Circle, Connaught Place (hereinafter, the site) and he had, during his lifetime filed a writ petition being W.P.(C) 4001/2011 titled Shri Puran Chand v. NDMC & Anr. which was decided by this Court vide order dated 02nd June, 2011. The directions given in the said writ petition were as under: Signature Not Verified Signed By:NAMITA W.P.(C) 4651/2025 Page 1 of 3 DHYANI Signing Date:16.04.2025 18:44:20 “4. Accordingly, the petitions are disposed of with the direction to the respondent NDMC to not disturb the petitioners from their present hawking sites as stated in the petitions till the Vending Committee completes the exercise of determining the status of their eligibility. The same is further subject to the following three conditions:- a) That the petitioners