The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted 10 days’ time to 34 shopkeepers of Khanpur market to vacate their premises. They were asked to move by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board in view of the construction of the Aerocity-Tughlakabad Metro corridor project.
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad were hearing Khanpur Market Association Regd., who had challenged a February 14 order passed by the single judge of the HC asking them to vacate their premises within a week from the order.
During the course of the hearing, the HC asked the association whether shops were covered under the policy. The association’s lawyer said that a Special Impact Assessment conducted by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation had recognised the shopkeepers.
