NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government on Thursday decided to write to the Bhure Lal-led Supreme Court Monitoring Committee to seek relief for some 45,000 traders who had filed affidavits with the court promising to stop misusing their residential areas before the proposed deadline.

With the race for taking credit for getting relief for the traders intensifying, the Delhi Cabinet that met under the leadership of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence on Thursday morning decided to ask Principal Secretary (Urban Development) Vivek Singh to write a letter to the Monitoring Committee to seek relief for the traders who had filed affidavits according to the wishes of the Supreme Court.

Abided by decision

It was felt that as these traders had abided by the decision of the court and had thereby undertaken to let the rule of the law prevail, the Committee should give them relief. It is another matter that the Supreme Court during its last hearing had made it clear that all those who had filed affidavits should stop misusing their premises or face sealing from November 1.

The Cabinet felt that with the Master Plan for Delhi 2021, expected to go a long way in providing relief to the people, lined up for finalisation, it was imperative that those who had decided to go with the law should be given some kind of relief.

The Cabinet noted that about 5 lakh traders who are covered by the September 7 and September 15 notifications and are presently under judicial scrutiny had been granted relief till January 31 to file affidavits. So, the same relief should be extended to the other sections also.

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