New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) will hear on Monday another application filed by the MCD seeking deferment of the resumption of sealing of over 40,000 shops in the Capital whose owners have filed affidavits giving an undertaking to the court that they would stop the misuse by June 30.
The MCD counsel on Friday mentioned the matter before a Division Bench comprising Justice K G Balalkrishnan and Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta for an urgent hearing of their applications to be filed during the course of the day.
The MCD is seeking postponement of the sealing operation on the grounds that the law and order situation was not conducive at present for starting the process and the situation may go out of hand in view of the widespread resentment brewing among traders against the sealing.
The MCD also pleaded that lakhs of employees working in these commercial establishments may also be rendered jobless, causing distress to their families.
The court directed that the application, if filed on Saturday, would be heard on Monday along with other applications filed by the Centre as well as the Delhi Government subject to the convenience of the Chief Justice.
Even the SC appointed monitoring committee has requested the court to postpone the sealing for sometime in its report filed in the apex court, meaning thereby that all the government agencies - the Centre, Delhi government, MCD, Delhi Police as well as Monitoring Committee - are in favour of deferring the sealing process.
The Monitoring Committee report is based on the one of the Delhi Police, MCD, Group of Ministers, as well as the feedback from Intelligence Bureau.
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