Justice Jasmeet Singh of the Delhi High Court has dismissed a writ petition by Shri Sanatan Dharam Ramleela Samiti against the DDA’s cancellation of its booking of Chintoo Park, Naraina for a Ramlila from September 30 to October 25, 2026, holding that maintaining the park as a green space for residents, as earlier directed, outweighs temporary use for the event.
The owners of the Satya Niketan PG building that collapsed this month, killing seven, failed to ensure structural safety and carried out unpermitted alterations without consulting any qualified structural engineer or architect, the Delhi Police has told the Delhi High Court in a status report, even as it said the exact cause of the collapse […]
Promoted on an ad-hoc basis in 2006, kept on for six years, then reverted, a group of MCD junior engineers spent two decades litigating for regularisation. The Supreme Court, deprecating the Corporation’s apathy, held that once the Lieutenant Governor approved the rule relaxation the approval related back to 2006, and ordered regularisation and consequential benefits from the date they were first promoted.
A Supreme Court-appointed amicus curiae blamed the MCD for the Saidulajab building collapse that killed six people and injured fourteen. The report stated that authorities were aware of unauthorised construction for years but failed to take effective action, making the tragedy a result of prolonged regulatory neglect.
