RAVI PRAKASH MEHROTRA vs DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY THROUGH THE VICE CHAIRMAN & ANR.

$~J * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment pronounced on: 20.02.2026 W.P.(C) 14421/2022 and CM APPLs.2918/2023, 27873/2025, 40473/2025 RAVI PRAKASH MEHROTRA ..... Petitioner Through: Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Mr. Apoorv Srivastava and Mr. Koustabh Desai, Advocates. versus DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY THROUGH THE VICE CHAIRMAN & ANR. ..... Respondents Through: Mr. Tushar Sannu, Ms. Pulak Gupta, Mr. Parvin Bansal and Ms. Aqsa, Advocates for DDA. Mr. Amit Gupta, SPC along with Mr. Vidur Dwivedi, Mr. Atik Gill and Mr. Karan Rawal, Advocates for UOI. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SACHIN DATTA JUDGMENT 1. The present petition has been filed by the petitioner, who is an Advocate, seeking appropriate directions against the respondents, to clear his outstanding professional fee bills. The prayers, as framed in the present petition, are as under:- “a. issue an appropriate writ, order or direction in the nature of MANDAMUS, directing Respondent nos. 1 and 2 to settle the outstanding professional fee bills of the Petitioner, forthwith, and to compensate him with grant of interest for the inordinate delay and harassment caused; b. pass any other order as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and p