UDAIVEER & ORS. vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment reserved on : 30 January 2025 Judgment pronounced on: 03 February 2025 + W.P.(C) 2504/2023 & CM APPL. 9578/2023, CM APPL. 28476/2023 UDAIVEER & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Mohan Singh, Ms. Vishakha Deshwal, Mr. Robin Singh, Mr. Sachin Kumar and Mr. Deepak Garg, Advs. versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Prabhsahay Kaur, SC for DDA. Ms. Hetu Arora Sethi, ASC GNCTD and Mr. Arjun Basra, Adv. for GNCTD. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Pathak, SC with Ms. K.K. Kiran Pathak, Mr. Sunil K. Jha, Mr. M.S. Akhtar, Mr. Mayank Madhu and Mr. Sami Sameer Siddique, Advs. for R-5 and 6. Mr. Rajesh Katyal and Ms. Seema Katyal, Advs. for R-8. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DHARMESH SHARMA JUDGMENT 1. The five petitioners invoke the extra-ordinary jurisdiction of this Court by instituting the present writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1950, by seeking the following reliefs: a) Issue a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ holding the act of Respondents in depriving the Petitioners Signature Not Verified W.P.(C) 2504/2023 Digitally Signed By:PRAMOD Page 1 of 19 KUMAR VATS Signing Date:03.02.2025 16:32:20 of their property and livelihood as violative of Article 14, Article 21 and Article 300 A of the Constitution of India. b) Issue a writ in the nature of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or directions restraining the respondents from disturbing the peaceful, physical possession of the petitioners over their respective parcels of the subject land; and directing the said respondent not to encroach and demolish / remove crops and cattle from the subject land that belongs to the petitioner; c) A writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction to not disturb th