Virpal v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: street vending; Certificate of Vending (COV); Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD); South Zone Ward S-86; mobile vending; snacks with gas cylinder/fire; Condition No.11 of Vending Certificate held directory not mandatory; provisional vending certificate and final certificate after hearing; compliance/binding effect of Division Bench judgment dated 21.07.2023 in W.P.(C) 7705/2023 (Virpal and Ors v. MCD); non-relocation of vendor; Delhi High Court, W.P.(C) 14387/2025, order dated 17.09.2025; Justices Nitin Wasudeo Sambre and Anish Dayal; petitioner Virpal; counsel Beenashaw N. Soni (SC), Ann Joseph, Renu, Swagata Gupta, Pragya Jaishwal, Kamlesh Kr. Mishra.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of in the above terms: petitioner entitled to vend per COV terms in South Zone, Ward S-86; petitioner not to be made to vend mobile-wise given COV specifies snacks with gas cylinder/fire; Condition No.11 of the Vending Certificate held directory, not mandatory, qua petitioner, with liberty to respondents to issue a final vending certificate modifying that condition after opportunity of hearing; pending applications also stand disposed of.