Sealing: Unfortunate that cops don't take action despite complaints, says SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said Wednesday it was an "unfortunate situation" that Delhi Police was not taking action against those who have tampered with seals put on the premises having illegal constructions and observed that people were taking law in their hands due to this.
A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said this after the court was informed by engineers of municipal corporations in Delhi that police has not taken action in some cases where seal put on the buildings were removed by private persons.
"This is a rather unfortunate situation where the police did not take action due to which some persons take law into their hands," said the bench, which also comprised Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta.
The counsel appearing for engineers of the civic bodies told the bench that there were cases where they seal some building but the private persons de-seal it.
When he said that they have lodged complaints with the police in this regard, the bench asked, "Why the police has not taken any action?".
The lawyer said that in some cases, police has taken action while in some other matters, no action has been taken.
The bench asked the counsel to give a list of cases within a week where police has not taken any action despite complaints being lodged in the matter.
During the hearing, the bench also dealt with the matter related to contempt notice issued to Delhi BJP chief and Member of Parliament Manoj Tiwari for allegedly breaking the seal of a premises in Gokalpuri area here which was being run in violation of the Delhi Master Plan.
The bench told senior advocate Vikas Singh, appearing for the MP from North East Delhi, that Tiwari has filed his reply to the contempt notice but its copy has not been given to the amicus curiae who is assisting the court in the Delhi sealing matter.
The court asked Tiwari, present in the court, to supply the copy of his reply to the amicus and posted the matter for hearing after 10 days.
