RAM KUMAR vs TOWN VENDING COMMITTEE (NDMC) THROUGH CHAIRPERSON & ANR.

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$~55 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision 9th April, 2025 + W.P.(C) 4542/2025 & CM APPL. 21021/2025 RAM KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Aastha Dhawan, Advocate. versus TOWN VENDING COMMITTEE (NDMC) THROUGH CHAIRPERSON & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Mehak Nakra, Mr. Aditya Goyal, Ms. Gunjan & Ms. Bhavya Nakra, Advocates for NDMC. CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE RAJNEESH KUMAR GUPTA Prathiba M. Singh, J.(Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. CM APPL. 21022/2025 (for exemption) 2. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Application is disposed of. W.P.(C) 4542/2025 & CM APPL. 21021/2025 3. This writ petition has been filed by the Petitioner-Ram Kumar under Article 226 of the Constitution of India inter alia seeking a direction to the Respondent-Town Vending Committee (hereinafter ‘TVC’) to include the Petitioner in the town vending survey. 4. It is the case of the Petitioner that he has been vending near Gate No. 1, Palika Bazar, New Delhi since 1988. It is further submitted by the Petitioner that he has been named in the list of 628 recognized vendors prepared by the Signature Not Verified Signed By:NAMITA W.P.(C) 4542/2025 Page 1 of 5 DHYANI Signing Date:11.04.2025 16:16:20 NDMC in pursuance of directions of the Supreme Court vide order dated 1st May, 2012. 5. The first time NDMC tried to depossess him from his vending site, the Petitioner along with other similarly placed vendors had previously filed a writ petition, being W.P.(C). 4524/2011 seeking the Court to direct NDMC not to disturb/dispossess them from their respective vending sites. The said writ petition was disposed of by a ld. Single Judge of this Court in the following terms: “Be that as it may, it is the admitted case of the petitioners that the pe