KAMAL RAJ BANSI vs NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ANR.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 20th March, 2025 W.P.(C) 3444/2025 KAMAL RAJ BANSI .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Bharat Aggarwal, Advocate. versus NEW DELHI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL & ANR. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sanjay Sharma, ASC for NDMC with Mr. Anand Kumar Sharma, Advocate. CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE RAJNEESH KUMAR GUPTA PrathibaM. Singh, J. (Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. CM APPL. 16157/2025 & 16158/2025 (both for exemption) 2. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. Applications are disposed of. W.P.(C) 3444/2025 3. The present petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the Petitioner – Kamal Raj Bansi, who claims to be a vendor carrying out vending between Gate Nos. 3 and 4, Palika Bazar, Connaught Place, New Delhi for the last several years. 4. The case of the Petitioner is that he has been vending since prior to the enactment of the Street Vending Act, 2014. Reliance is placed upon certain receipts dated back to the year 2007, which are placed on record. The Petitioner had also filed a writ petition being W.P.(C) 4546/2011 titled Kamal Raj Bansi v. NDMC & Ors., wherein the Cour