RAKESH SINGH & ORS. vs SUSHIL KUMAR & ORS.

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$~87 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 23rd July, 2025 + CM(M) 1320/2025 & CM APPL. 43638-43639/2025 RAKESH SINGH & ORS. .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sameer Nandwani and Mr. Sanjiv Sharma, Advocates (Through VC) versus SUSHIL KUMAR & ORS. .....Respondent Through: Ms. Chhaya, Advocate for R-1 & R-2 Mr. G.S. Oberoi, Standing Counsel for MCD with Mr. Ankur Sharma and Ms. Shaifali Jain, Advocates for MCD CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN J U D G M E N T (oral) 1. Petitioners have filed a civil suit which seeks injunction. 2. They are residing in different portions of Property No. 2647, Shadi Pur, Main Bazar, New Delhi-110008 and claim themselves to be the tenants under defendant no. 1 and defendant no. 2 for more than last forty years. 3. According to them, the rent ranges between Rs. 200/- to Rs. 500/- per month and their landlords were pressurizing them to vacate the tenanted premises but since they were unsuccessful in their such endeavour, they, eventually, in collusion with the officials of Municipal Corporation of Delhi, got a notice issued, declaring the building in question to be dangerous. 4. It is in the aforesaid backdrop that they have filed suit with the prayer that landlords be restrained from dispossessing them and also seek injunction Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed CM(M) 1320/2025 1 By:SONIA THAPLIYAL Signing Date:25.07.2025 12:24:27 against Municipal Corporation of Delhi from demolishing the property in any manner whatsoever. 5. Learned Trial Court declined grant of any injunction, holding that they had no prima facie case in their favour. 6. Such order was challenged by them by filing an appeal before the learned First Appellate Court and learned First Appellate Court has also come to the same conclusion. 7. Such or