RAJIV KUMAR vs MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI AND ORS

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$~3 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision:13th April, 2026 Uploaded on:15th April, 2026 + W.P.(C) 16239/2025 RAJIV KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Dipak Raj, Proxy Counsel for Mr. Aditya, Mr. Vipin Kumar, Mr. Anjani Kumar Mishra, Mr. Kailash Kumar Jha, Ms. Pralika Chakraborty, Mr. Fareeduddin, Ms. Srejal Mishra, Advs. versus MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI AND ORS .....Respondents Through: Ms. Beenashaw N. Soni, Standing Counsel for MCD with Ms. Mansi Jain, Adv. Mr. Ritesh Kumar Bahri, APP with Mr. Lalit Luthra, Adv. for State Insp Satya Prakash and Head Constable Ajay Kumar, PS Patparganj Industrial Area Mr. Anubhav Gupta, Panel Counsel, (Civil) GNCTD with Mr. Siddharth Arora, Advs. for R5 CORAM: JUSTICE PRATHIBA M. SINGH JUSTICE MADHU JAIN Prathiba M. Singh, J. (Oral) 1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode. CM APPL. 10157/2026 (for directions) 2. The present application has been filed by the Petitioner under Section Signature Not Verified Signed By:RENUKA NEGI W.P.(C) 16239/2025 Page 1 of 13 Signing Date:15.04.2026 18:44:37 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, inter alia, seeking directions to the Respondents to allow the Petitioner to vend from an alternate vending site. 3. A brief background of the Petitioner’s case is that, the Petitioner is a tea vendor who had been vending at the spot i.e., on the Footpath, Service Road, Chaudhary Charan Singh Marg, Near ISBT, Anand Vihar, Shahdara South Zone, Ward 18-E, New Delhi. 4. The Petitioner is a person with 78% locomotor disabilities and has been issued a provisional Certificate of Vending (hereinafter ‘CoV’) for the category ‘others’. 5. On 13th February, 2026, when this application was taken up, the Court was informed by the ld. Counsel for the Petitioner that the Petitioner had b