The Delhi High Court will today hear the petition seeking a stay on the Central Vista redevelopment project during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The petition was filed in the Delhi High Court by Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi through Advocates Gautam Khazanchi and Pradyuman Kaistha. It sought interim relief of halt on project work in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the country.

The Union of India had yesterday filed a reply to the petition, calling it an abuse of the process of law and another attempt to stall the project and sought its dismissal with cost. The affidavit was signed by Rajiv Sharma, Executive Engineer, Central Vista Project Division-III and filed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

It submitted that the work, which formulates the subject matter of the petition, was awarded to Shapoorji Pallonji and Company in January 2021.

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The scope of work for the project in question is not what is colloquially referred to as “the Central Vista Project”, whereas the scope of work, which is a subject matter of the petition, is limited to the redevelopment of Central Vista Avenue (both sides of Rajpath), where the Republic Day celebrations are held annually and widely visited by the people and tourists in Delhi, it added.

 The Delhi High Court will on Thursday hear the petition seeking a stay on the Central Vista redevelopment project during the Covid-19 pandemic as the Chief Justice bench could not assemble today.

The petition was filed in the Delhi High Court by Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi through Advocates Gautam Khazanchi and Pradyuman Kaistha. It sought interim relief of halt on project work in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the country.

The Union of India had yesterday filed a reply to the petition, calling it an abuse of the process of law and another attempt to stall the project and sought its dismissal with cost. The affidavit was signed by Rajiv Sharma, Executive Engineer, Central Vista Project Division-III and filed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.

It submitted that the work, which formulates the subject matter of the petition, was awarded to Shapoorji Pallonji and Company in January 2021.

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The scope of work for the project in question is not what is colloquially referred to as “the Central Vista Project”, whereas the scope of work, which is a subject matter of the petition, is limited to the redevelopment of Central Vista Avenue (both sides of Rajpath), where the Republic Day celebrations are held annually and widely visited by the people and tourists in Delhi, it added.

Source: ILNS

The Delhi High Court has today allowed early hearing of a plea seeking stay over the construction work started for the Central Vista
Redevelopment project after a mentioning made by Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra.

A divisional bench of the Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh has kept the matter for hearing on May 11, Tomorrow considering the urgency in the matter.

The petition was filed in the Delhi High Court by petitioners Anya Malhotra and Sohail Hashmi through Advocates Gautam Khazanchi and Pradyuman Kaistha seeks interim relief of halt on work of Central Vista Project (CVP) in light of Covid-19.

The mentioning has been made before the bench after the direction of the Supreme Court stating, “We request Mr Luthra, either himself or on behalf of the counsel of petitioner to make a request before the HC Chief Justice on Monday, to take up the matter as earliest as possible. The HC shall fasten the date for early hearing looking at the urgency of the matter.”

Luthra appearing before the Delhi HC submitted, “Your lordship was pleased to keep it on 17th May. An SLP was filed, my request is that there is an emergency, a health emergency.”

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Earlier, The Delhi HC bench had refused to issue notice in the plea seeking stay/suspension on all construction activity on the project amid the Covid pandemic while stating the Court wanted to study the Supreme Court judgment and list the matter for further hearing on May 17.

The bench will be hearing the matter tomorrow i.e. May 11.