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The Delhi High Court connected Wednesday ordered “appropriate action” against respective cafes, bars and restaurants operating without sanctioned gathering plans and information measures in the Majnu ka Tila area in northbound Delhi.
The tribunal was proceeding a petition which contended that galore unauthorised restaurants are operating in multi-storey buildings successful Majnu ka Tila, located on the Yamuna riverbank, and are being utilized for commercialized purposes.
Noting that a suo motu complaint has already been registered by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), the tribunal said, “We dispose of the petition with a absorption to the authorities to instrumentality due enactment which whitethorn beryllium warranted nether instrumentality aft reviewing the grievances of the petitioner.”
It besides directed that the determination and enactment arsenic whitethorn beryllium warranted in the ailment filed by the DDA beryllium taken with expedition, preferably wrong 3 months.
‘Life-threatening hazard’
The tribunal was proceeding a PIL by Arnav Singh and different idiosyncratic seeking enactment against the buildings and establishments recovered operating without sanctioned gathering plans. The plea besides sought direction to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the Delhi Fire Services to enforce the National Building Code and applicable occurrence information measures successful the areas, ensuring that immoderate required enactment is taken.
DDA’s counsel submitted that based connected the PIL, a suo motu complaint has been registered astatine the portal of the peculiar task force. The plea claimed that respective structures successful Majnu ka Tila and New Aruna Nagar emergence to “7-8 floors, with amerciable basements, rooftops, and recreational facilities”.
It said that the “structural and operational conditions of these buildings make an contiguous and life-threatening hazard”. The petitioners claimed that astir buildings deficiency staircases beyond the 3rd oregon 4th floor, leaving “only small, low-capacity lifts arsenic vertical access”.
