New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to give more time to the traders for filing affidavits before the Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee informed the court that out of 25,000 traders, over 18,000 had filed affidavits with it, saying they had shut their shops.
Last week, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Centre had approached the Supreme Court, seeking concessions for 25,000 traders, who had shops on notified roads.
The court granted two days to the Monitoring Committee (MC) to verify the 18,459 affidavits filed by the traders. The court will hear the matter on November 23, when it will decide the fate of these traders.
The court refused to take on record an application filed by a federation of 1,700 private schools in Delhi having about eight lakh students, but directed the MCD and the amicus curiae, Ranjeet Kumar, to go through the application and inform the court on November 23 whether these rules were entitled for any relief.
A bench, comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justices C K Thakker and Lokeshwar Singh Panta, was told by Senior Counsel M N Krishnamani that the future of eight lakh students studying in these schools would be in jeopardy if the schools are forced to close down as the annual examinations are approaching. Hence, the schools may at least be allowed to continue till the annual examinations are over.
According to the application, education is not a commercial activity and the schools are meant for imparting education to the children. The Chief Justice responded by saying, "We know what for they are run."
The two government notifications dated September 7 and 15, 2006, which are under challenge in the Supreme Court had permitted mixed land use along 2,183 roads in Delhi.
The Central Government and the MCD are seeking relief for 25,000 traders on par with other traders, who have been allowed to continue till the final decision of the court comes.
The decision on the two notifications is subject to filing of affidavits by these traders latest by January 31, 2007, giving an undertaking that they would close down their shops immediately if the notifications are invalidated by the court.
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