New Delhi: The spectre of sealing loomed large over Delhi on Friday after the Supreme Court orders resumption of sealing of all unauthorised structures in Delhi from March 28.
The apex court order comes a fortnight after it ruled on March 8 that the sealing drive will continue on unnotified roads.
A three-member Bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat, D K Jain and P K Balasubraminiam came down heavily on the government for seeking the SEC's consent to carry out the sealing drive when the apex court was already seized of the matter.
On March 8, the court said its direction for sealing the premises unauthorisedly used for commercial activities in the residential areas on the un-notified roads in the national capital would remain “operational”.
"It needs no reiteration that the order dated February 12 will be carried out to its logical end," an SC bench headed by Justice Arijit Pasayat was quoted as saying.
The court had earlier on February 12 halted the sealing drive on 2183 roads notified for mixed land use under the new Master Plan for Delhi 2021.
However, on March 10, Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken was quoted as saying in several newspapers that no sealing in Delhi will happen either before or after the April 5 municipal elections.
Maken said this after a meeting of the Delhi Congress for the MCD elections.
He said the polls would be a referendum on the Master Plan 2021 and the regularisation of over 1,500 unauthorised colonies.
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