Rajendra Singh v. Commissioner of Police and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Street vendor; certificate of vending (CoV) URI No. 7787674; food/snack with gas cylinder/fire; Condition No. 11 exemption; mobile vendor 30-minute/TVC time limit; stationary street vendor nomenclature; 40% locomotive disability; harassment by police and MCD officials; Sarai Kale Khan Metro Station Gate No. 2, Central Zone Ward-S-56; Town Vending Committee–II; section 21, Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014; followed W.P.(C) 19391/2025 Mohd Badruddin v. MCD & Ors.; followed W.P.(C) 453/2026 Govind Singh Bhandari v. MCD & Ors.; petition disposed of; Delhi High Court.
What did the court decide?
Petitioner permitted to operate his vend from the vending zone using only a small or medium sized gas cylinder, restricted to his operating space without encroaching on pedestrian areas, and obliged to maintain cleanliness and hygiene; Condition No. 11 of the CoV directed not to apply to the Petitioner, subject to compliance with all other CoV conditions; directions subject to any plan of Town Vending Committee–II under section 21 of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014; petition and pending applications, if any, disposed of. No express direction issued correcting the CoV nomenclature to 'stationary street vendor'.