UNION BANK OF INDIA vs DELHI JAL BOARD & ORS.

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgment Reserved on: 13th March, 2026 Judgment pronounced on: 28th March, 2026 W.P.(C) 17743/2025 & CM APPL. 73375-73376/2025, CM APPL. 10722/2026 UNION BANK OF INDIA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Sandeep Bajaj, Ms. Swastika Kumari, Ms. Aakansha Nehra and Mr. Mayank Biyani, Advocates. versus DELHI JAL BOARD & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Sanjay Jain Senior Advocate with Mr. Tushar Sannu, Mr. Nishank Tripathi, Ms. Harshita Sukhija, Ms. Rishika Agrawal and Ms. Priya Tyagi, Advocates. Mr. T. Sundar Ramanathan & Ms. Sukanya Viswanathan, Advocates for R-2 CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT BANSAL JUDGMENT AMIT BANSAL, J. 1. The present writ petition has been filed on behalf of Union Bank of India, which portrays itself to be a secured creditor and successor-in-interest, administering the Package-II of the Interceptor Sewer Project (ISP) (hereinafter ‘Project’) works of the erstwhile M/s Pratibha- Mosinzhstroi 2025. 2. Brief facts necessary for adjudication of the present writ petition are set out below: 2.1. In the year 2011, the respondent no.1/DJB, with a view to abate the pollution of the River Yamuna, decided to lay interceptor sewers a