Shyam Sunder & Ors. v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Case brief
What is this about?
Street vendors; provisional Certificate of Vending (COV); Harkesh Nagar, South Delhi; MCD disturbance/demolition; Food/Snack with Gas Cylinder/Fire category; small or medium gas cylinder; no encroachment on pedestrian areas; cleanliness and hygiene; Condition No. 11 of COV inapplicable; bar on sub-letting and third-party interest; no permanent or temporary construction; Town Vending Committee–II; Section 21, Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014; mobile vendors; non-vending sites; Assistant Commissioner MCD site allocation; W.P.(C) 7042/2025; comparable matters W.P.(C) 19391/2025 (Mohd Badruddin v. MCD), W.P.(C) 15082/2025 (Rajendra Singh v. Commissioner of Police), W.P.(C) 1609/2026 (Rihana v. MCD).
What did the court decide?
Petitioners Nos. 1, 5 and 10 permitted to vend peacefully subject to stated conditions (including inapplicability of Condition No. 11 of the COV); remaining Petitioners to vend as mobile vendors per their CoV terms; all Petitioners to be allocated vending places by the concerned Assistant Commissioner, MCD; petition and pending applications disposed of.