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“Amid dense information deployment, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) connected Friday (June 5, 2026) began sealing unauthorised establishments successful assorted South Delhi commercialized hubs,” officials said.
“The enactment was initiated against commercialized establishments recovered operating successful usurpation of gathering bye-laws and licence conditions,” they said. According to officials, astatine slightest 10 specified establishments, including respective restaurants, volition beryllium sealed successful Saidulajab area, Hauz Khas Village, and adjacent areas successful South Delhi.
"Two buildings person already been sealed successful the Hauz Khas Village, six buildings person been identified successful Saidulajab and volition beryllium sealed today, and fewer different buildings volition beryllium sealed successful adjacent areas," a elder MCD authoritative said.
"Identified unauthorised establishments adjacent Hauz Rani area, wherever the occurrence incidental took place, volition beryllium sealed soon, and we are waiting for their bed-and-breakfast licences to beryllium revoked," helium added.
According to officials, astatine slightest 4 MCD teams comprising aggregate inferior and adjunct engineers person been deployed for the sealing exercise.
“The determination comes days aft a deadly occurrence astatine a bed-and-breakfast installation successful Malviya Nagar country claimed 21 lives, exposing large-scale violations specified arsenic operating beyond permitted capableness and lack of a sanctioned gathering plan,” officials said.
On Thursday (June 4, 2026), the Delhi authorities constituted district-level and subdivision-level committees to inspect and initiate sealing enactment against establishments operating successful usurpation of occurrence information norms and gathering bye-laws.
According to the order, district-level committees — comprising territory Magistrate arsenic chairperson, Deputy Commissioner (MCD), Deputy Commissioner of Police, and the Divisional Fire Officer — volition coordinate a city-wide survey of amerciable and unauthorised buildings and establishments violating occurrence information norms and gathering byelaws.
According to the order, they volition undertake inspections and sealing actions, prioritising buildings (G+5 and supra and/or with basements) with commercialized establishments — specified arsenic furniture and meal places, hotels, restaurants, banquet halls, impermanent houses, hospitals, nursing homes, etc. — and not having occurrence information certificates.
The territory Magistrate, if required, whitethorn besides invoke powers nether the Disaster Management Act, 2005, for ensuring broad action, it added.
