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Notices served to Panchkuian Road shopkeepers

Staff Reporter

Metro has challenged an earlier judgment against its directive to shopkeepers to vacate land for expanding the road

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notices to shopkeepers of Panchkuian Road in the Capital, the Delhi Government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on an appeal by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) challenging a single-Bench judgment striking down its directive to shopkeepers to vacate the land for expanding the road.

Issuing the notices, a Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Vijender Jain and Justice Kailash Gambhir directed the respondents to file their replies by August 7, the next date of hearing.

Mr. Justice Vikramjit Sen of the High Court had struck down notices issued by DMRC to the shopkeepers asking them to vacate the land so that the road could be expanded before opening it to traffic.

The shopkeepers had moved the High Court challenging DMRC's notices to them.

In his judgment, Mr. Justice Sen had said DMRC had not followed the due process to remove the shopkeepers and take the land into its possession.

In the appeal, DMRC submitted that it required the land to expand the road so that it could be opened to traffic. The road is at present closed for traffic because of its narrowness, it said.

It further submitted that in case of an accident in trains running on the elevated tack on the route, fire tenders would not be able to approach there due to narrowness of the road.

It also informed the court that it had built a commercial complex on Bhai Veer Singh Marg for these shopkeepers but they were not ready to shift there.

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