HC wants affidavits on closure of illegal farmhouses

  • 27/03/2006

  • Tribune (New Delhi)

The Delhi High Court asked the MCD and the DDA to file sworn affidavits in support of their claims that no illegal farmhouses were functioning in the Capital. A division bench of Justice Vijender Jain and Justice S N Agarwal granted four weeks to the two agencies to file their affidavits and posted the matter for further hearing to May 8. Earlier, J Sabharwal, counsel for the DDA, in his submission said that no farmhouse which did not comply with the norm of 60 feet width approach road fixed by the court was allowed to function in the city. The MCD counsel too submitted that the corporation had sealed all the farmhouses which did not conform to the 60 feet width approach road norms.