The Supreme Court on Tuesday fully endorsed the Delhi high court’s refusal to stop construction of the Central Vista Redevelopment Project during the pandemic and upheld the May 31 order by which the latter dismissed the “motivated” PIL with a cost of ₹1 lakh.
The top court said that the two petitioners — Anya Malhotra and historian Sohail Hashmi — were selective in choosing the Central Vista project as the subject of their PIL without doing adequate research on such other public projects where construction was ongoing during the pandemic.
A three-judge bench headed by justice AM Khanwilkar said, “We find that the view taken by the Delhi high court is a possible view.
