RAJENDER SINGH vs 1. TOWN VENDING COMMITTEE THROUGH CHAIRPERSON & ANR.

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$~59 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 15th April, 2025 + W.P.(C) 4656/2025, CM APPLs. 21553/2025 & 21554/2025 RAJENDER SINGH .....Petitioner Through: Ms. Aastha Dhawan, Advocate. versus TOWN VENDING COMMITTEE THROUGH CHAIRPERSON & ANR. .....Respondents Through: None. 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 – Rajender Singh under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of appropriate directions to the Respondents to include the Petitioner in the survey being conducted by the Town Vending Committee under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Scheme of 2019 (hereinafter, the Scheme) and to further grant a certificate of vending to the Petitioner. Additionally, the Petitioner is also seeking allocation of a temporary site in a permissible area in or around Connaught Place. 3. The Petitioner claims to be a vendor vending from a site at Gate No.2, Palika Bazar, Connaught Place, New Delhi. As per the Petitioner, he had also filed a writ petition earlier, being W.P.(C) 4188/2011 titled Rajender Singh v. New Delhi Municipal Corporation & Ors., along with various other Signature Not Verified Signed By:NAMITA DHYANI Signing Date:17.04.2025 12:38:23 similarly placed Petitioners. The said writ petitions were disposed of on 03rd June, 2011 in the following terms: “5. Accordingly, all these petitions are disposed of with the direction to the respondent NDMC to not disturb the petitioner(s) from their present hawking/squatting sites as stared in the respective petitions till the Vending Committee completes the exercise of determining the stat