Budhan Das v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
street vendor; Certificate of Vending; provisional COV; Food/Snack with gas cylinder/fire; Condition No. 11; 30-minute limit; mobile vendors; vending/squatting zone; MCD removal of vendor; Town Vending Committee-II; Section 21 Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014; bar on sub-letting; third party interest; gas cylinder size; pedestrian obstruction; Article 226; Khirki Extension; Malviya Nagar; Ward S-88; Delhi High Court; petition disposed with directions
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of with directions permitting the Petitioner to continue vending subject to conditions: only a small or medium sized gas cylinder; confinement to his operating space without encroachment or obstruction of pedestrians; maintenance of cleanliness and hygiene; no third party interest, sub-letting or handing over of possession; no permanent or temporary construction; exemption from Condition No. 11 of the COV with compliance of all other COV conditions; directions subject to any Town Vending Committee-II plan under Section 21 of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, with no vested rights; pending applications disposed of.