Rajender Singh v. Town Vending Committee Through Chairperson & Anr.

1. This hearing has been done through hybrid mode.

2. The present writ petition has been filed by the Petitioner – Rajender Singh under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of appropriate directions to the Respondents to include the Petitioner in the survey being conducted by the Town Vending Committee under the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood & Regulation of Street Vending) Scheme of 2019 (hereinafter, the Scheme) and to further grant a certificate of vending to the Petitioner. Additionally, the Petitioner is also seeking allocation of a temporary site in a permissible area in or around Connaught Place.

3. The Petitioner claims to be a vendor vending from a site at Gate No.2, Palika Bazar, Connaught Place, New Delhi. As per the Petitioner, he had also filed a writ petition earlier, being W.P.(C) 4188/2011 titled Rajender Singh v. New Delhi Municipal Corporation & Ors., along with various other similarly placed Petitioners. The said writ petitions were disposed of on 03rd June, 2011 in the following terms:

4. The submission made by the Petitioner in the present petition is that his name appears at number 268 in the list of 628 vendors which was prepared by the New Delhi Municipal Council (hereinafter, ‘NDMC’) pursuant to the orders of Hon’ble Supreme Court dated 12th October, 2012 in Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No.(s) 1765/2012 titled ‘Salim v. NDMC & Anr.’

5. As per the current status, the Palika Bazar area has now been declared as a non-vending zone. It is submitted on behalf of the Petitioner that he had thus filed another writ petition being W.P.(C) 159/2017 titled Rajender Singh v. New Delhi Municipal Corporation & Ors wherein vide order dated 14th November, 2019 the Court dismissed the petition in default for nonprosecution.