Pradeep v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Street vendor; provisional Certificate of Vending; URI No. 2336086; 'Food/Snack with gas cylinder/fire'; Condition No. 11 exemption; MCD seizure of goods 22.01.2026; Sangam Vihar; Foot Over Bridge, Mehrauli Badarpur Road; Town Vending Committee South Delhi 2021 survey; Town Vending Committee–II plan; S. 21 Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014; Article 226 Constitution of India; analogous orders W.P.(C) 19391/2025 Mohd Badruddin v. MCD & Ors and W.P.(C) 453/2026 Govind Singh Bhandari v. MCD & Ors; small or medium gas cylinder; dustbin/hygiene; bar on sub-letting and third-party interest; no construction; Delhi High Court; coram Justice Prathiba M. Singh and Justice Madhu Jain; disposed 10.02.2026.
What did the court decide?
Petitioner permitted to continue vending from the Sangam Vihar site subject to: use of only a small or medium sized gas cylinder; restriction to his existing space without encroachment or obstruction of pedestrians; maintenance of cleanliness and hygiene with a dustbin near the vend; no third-party interest, sub-letting or handing over possession of the provisional CoV; and erection of no permanent or temporary construction. Condition No. 11 of the CoV made inapplicable to him while he complies with all other CoV conditions. Directions subject to any plan of Town Vending Committee–II under S. 21, Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014.