Delhi Government

Senior Congress leader and former minister Ajay Maken has moved the Supreme Court, asking it to make government bodies ensure that slum dwellers are rehabilitated before the removal of 48,000 illegal dwellings (jhuggis) alongside railway tracks in Delhi.

The Supreme Court has held: "When the court passed specific orders directing the states to file affidavits, the court’s intention was to see the working of the aforesaid acts. Non-filing of affidavit clearly indicates that the states are not interested in implementing the aforesaid enactments.”

The Delhi High Court today directed the Delhi government to consider as representation a plea seeking arrangements to prevent water-logging problems in Delhi.

The Delhi High Court today said that “Necessity is the Mother of all inventions” while directing the Delhi Government to frame measures for online registration for the benefit of the old and vulnerable groups.

The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a plea challenging the election of Delhi’s health minister Satyendra Jain of AAP.

With Tihar jail authorities agreeing to introduce a common room as well as for provision for a television by end-September 2020, the Delhi High court today disposed of a petition seeking facilities for high security ward prisoners, saying there was no further need for monitoring of the situation.

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a contempt petition filed by an NGO, Nayee Soch Society, which had claimed that the Delhi government had not served free meals as the court had ordered. The number of people thus affected was 8 lakh, the petition claimed.

The Delhi government’s decision to allow the sale of liquor in hotels and restaurants is part of its drive to increase its revenue which was severely depleted due to Covid-19.

The Delhi High Court today directed the Center, Delhi government, and other departments to clear the professional fees of empanelled lawyers within four weeks.

The petition states that “Glanders is a zoonotic disease and is transmitted from animal to humans and in case if preventive measures are not taken at once then even the human beings may get infected which may be fatal for the humans.”