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Court will not stay sealing

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on November 6 applications filed by the Centre and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) seeking permission to stop sealing operations and to allow traders, who had given affidavits that they would stop misusing their residential premises, to continue their commercial activities in the capital.

A Bench consisting of Justices K.G. Balakrishnan, Dalveer Bhandari and Lokeswhar Singh Panta, however, declined to stay the sealing operations till then.

Additional Solicitor-General, Amarendra Saran, appearing for the Centre, requested early listing of the applications preferably on Thursday itself in the chambers of the Chief Justice or at least on Monday. Senior counsel, Abhishek Singhvi and counsel V.P. Singh appeared for the MCD and the Delhi Government.

Case before

another Bench

The judges told counsel that when another Bench headed by the Chief Justice was seized of the matter it would not be possible for them to pass any order. The Bench headed by the Chief Justice would hear the matter.

Mr. Saran urged that in the meanwhile authorities be allowed to exercise their administrative discretion in deciding whether to go ahead with the sealing till November 6 or not.

"We do not know what is your administrative discretion," the Bench said.

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