TAUFEEQUE AHMAD vs MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI & ORS.

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$~95 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 25th September, 2025 + W.P.(C) 14893/2025 & CM APPL. 61243/2025 TAUFEEQUE AHMAD .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Shekhar Dasi, Md. Talha, Mr. Ayush Dassi, Mr. Divyansh Malhotra, Advocates (M:98711655327) versus MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Harita Mehta, Advocate for MCD (M:9999986600) Mr. Tanveer Ahmed Ansari, Sr. Panel Counsel for R-3 (M:9717736267) CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA MINI PUSHKARNA, J. (Oral) 1. The present writ petition has been filed seeking directions to respondent no. 1, i.e., Municipal Corporation of Delhi (“MCD”) to not take any further demolition action against the property of the petitioner, i.e., property bearing No. A-16, part of Khasra No. 743/556/330, Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi-110025, till the time, the Appellate Tribunal MCD (“ATMCD”) is reconstituted, and the appeals of the petitioner bearing Nos. 42/2025 and 43/2025, before the ATMCD, are heard by the ATMCD. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn the attention of this Court to the orders dated 23rd January, 2025, 21st February, 2025 and 02nd May, 2025, passed by the ATMCD, to submit that the interim application for stay, filed by the petitioner, before the ATMCD, could not be taken up, as the MCD filed its reply only on 02nd May, 2025 and the appeals were then Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed W.P.(C) 14893/2025 Page 1 of 11 By:HARIOM SHARMA Signing Date:27.09.2025 11:02:47 listed for 26th September, 2025 before the ATMCD. 3. It is submitted that currently, there is no Presiding Officer in the ATMCD. Thus, the present writ petition has been filed. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is not carrying out any further construction and shall n