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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, the Delhi Chief Secretary, S. Regunathan, and the Chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board, V. Rajagopalan, on a petition seeking initiation of contempt proceedings against them for not implementing the High Court directions on night sweeping in the Capital. Following the directions by the High Court in April 2003, the Corporation had decided to continue night cleaning in its 46 select zones, started on an experimental basis, on a permanent basis and extend it in more zones in future. In the directions, the High Court had also directed the petitioner, Ravinder Raj, to give further suggestion to the Corporation in this regard. ``It is hoped that the suggestion will be taken in the right spirit and action will be taken within a reasonable period of one year,'' the High Court said. In his contempt petition, Mr. Raj submitted that the respondents had neither taken any action nor had responded with any progress in the matter. Getting no response from the Corporation, he sent representations to the MCD Commissioner, the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, and the Delhi Lieutenant-Governor, B.L. Joshi, the petition said. However, all the representations fall on deaf dears, the petition stated. The High Court had passed the above-mentioned directions on a public interest litigation (PIL) by Mr. Raj seeking changeover in the time schedule for sweeping the city's colonies from morning to night. Justice S. Ravinder Bhat directed the respondents to file their replies to the contempt petition by November 24.
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