Nsmc v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi & Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: intra-court appeal; LPA; impleadment application; demolition of unauthorized/illegal structure on public land; Municipal Corporation of Delhi; Narela Shiv Mandir Committee; direction to demolish within 04 weeks; police assistance including female officers to DCP; denial of opportunity of hearing; admission that structure is unauthorized; unregistered residents' committee; appeal dismissed. Relevant when researching an impleadment allowed alongside a demolition direction and this court's treatment of the impleaded party's prior admission of unauthorizedness as fatal to its no-hearing grievance.
What did the court decide?
In view of the admission made on behalf of the appellant (recorded by the learned Single Judge in paragraph 7 of the impugned order, that the structure is unauthorized), the appellant's submission that it was not heard before the order of demolition was passed is unsustainable.