Supreme Court: In a special leave to appeal by the Prachin Shiv Mandir Avam Akhada Samiti against the Delhi High Court’s decision for allowing the demolition of a Shiv Temple located on the Yamuna floodplains, the Vacation Bench of Sanjay Kumar and Augustine George Masih, JJ. dismissed the SLP, upholding the High Court’s decision.
However, the Bench clarified that the dismissal of this SLP did not preclude the petitioner from pursuing its remedies before the High Court in the pending proceedings.
On 29-05-2024, the Samiti sought quashing and setting aside of the order of demolition given for the Pracheen Shiv Mandir, situated near Taj Enclave, Geeta Colony, however, and held that the petitioner society had failed to demonstrate any legal rights existing with it to continue to use and occupy the civic property for running the temple services.
The High Court had granted 15 days’ time to remove the idols and other religious objects in the temple and to place the same in some other temple. On failure of the same, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) was directed to ensure that the idols are placed in some other temple.
[Prachin Shiv Mandir Avam Akhada Samiti v. Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.13128/2024, Decided on: 14-06-2024]
Advocates who appeared in this case :
For the petitioner: AOR Anurag Ojha, Advocate Jitender Chaudhary, Advocate Kamlesh Kumar Mishra, Advocate Rajbala, Advocate Saatvik Khurana, Advocate Renu, Advocate Samishti Solomon
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