SUBHASHINI DEWAN vs DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MCD & ORS.

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$~86 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 26th September, 2025 + W.P.(C) 15120/2025, CM APPL. 62124/2025 & CM APPL. 62125/2025 SUBHASHINI DEWAN .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Nikhil Mehra, Mr. Nakul Grover, Mr. Ashutosh Jain and Mr. Madhav Jaiswal, Advs. Mob: 9810776904 & 9811801919 Email: [email protected] versus DEPUTY COMMISSIONER MCD & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Vinod Kumar Khanna, Adv. for MCD. Mob: 9891081919 Email: [email protected] Mr. Vipul Garg and Mr. Adarsh Shesha, Advs. for R-3 Mob: 8700614239 Email: [email protected] Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 15120/2025 Page 1 of 8 By:HARIOM SHARMA Signing Date:27.09.2025 14:44:48 CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA MINI PUSHKARNA, J. (Oral) 1. The present writ petition has been filed seeking to quash the Sealing Order dated 08th September, 2025, and Letter dated 16th September, 2025 passed by the respondent – Municipal Corporation of Delhi (“MCD”), holding that the tenancy in petitioner‟s property bearing No. 11, Block No. 28, East Patel Nagar, Delhi is violative of the usage provisions of Master Plan for Delhi, 2021 (“MPD-2021”) and the Unified Building Bye-Laws for Delhi, 2016 (“UBBL-2016”). 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that a Show Cause Notice dated 13th December, 2024, was issued to the petitioner, for alleged violation of the MPD-2021 and misuse/occupancy of the property in question without payment of requisite charges. In response thereto, the petitioner had submitted a reply dated 17th December, 2024, stating that no conversion charges were required to be paid in respect of the property in question, as the same fell under “Convenient Shopping Centre” at East Patel Nagar, New Delhi. 3. He further submits that pursu