TRIDIB MONDAL vs MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI AND ORS

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$~71 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 15th July, 2025 + W.P.(C) 9592/2025 & CM APPL. 40344/2025 TRIDIB MONDAL .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Nitish Massey, Mr. Harshit Gupta appearing along with Petitioner in person. versus MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Siddharth Gupta, Standing Counsel for MCD/R-1, Mob. No. 9810141287. 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. 40345/2025 (exemption) 2. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Application is disposed of. W.P.(C) 9592/2025 & CM APPL. 40344/2025 (for direction) 3. The present writ petition has been filed by the Petitioner – Tridib Mondal under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, inter alia, seeking issuance of an appropriate writ directing the Respondents to allow the Petitioner to peacefully vend at his designated spot. 4. The case of the Petitioner is that he is a vendor running a flower shop by the name M/s Ma Kali Flower Shop near the Forensic Science Institute Boundary wall, J.N.U., Ber Sarai Village, Devika Das Marg, New Delhi – Signature Not Verified Signed By:NAMITA W.P.(C) 9592/2025 Page 1 of 4 DHYANI Signing Date:17.07.2025 17:34:22 110016. According to the Petitioner, the said flower vend has been running since 2005. The Petitioner has also been issued a Certificate of Vending (hereinafter, ‘COV’) by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (hereinafter, ‘MCD’). 5. Recently, the Petitioner’s flower vend was removed by the concerned officials of the MCD without any notice and all the flowers of the Petitioner were allegedly seized and confiscated. 6. Ld. Counsel for the Petitioner submits that the Petitioner is similarly placed to other vends