News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Shiv Sharan Shukla
Updated Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:23 PM IST
Summary
The Supreme Court dismissed the petition filed against the High Court’s decision to stay the implementation of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s speech on rent relief. There was a demand in this that the court should direct the government to implement the speech of the Chief Minister.
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The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed against the High Court’s decision to stay the implementation of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s speech on rent relief. In this petition, it was demanded that the court direct the AAP government to decide and implement the policy to implement the speech of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Significantly, during the Corona period, Arvind Kejriwal had said in one of his speeches that if a poor tenant was unable to pay the rent during the Corona epidemic, the state would pay it.
Hearing this petition, a division bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant said that the undertaking will not work on the basis of speech. There should be some policy for this. The government will have to issue a notification in this regard.
The Supreme Court bench also said that this is a negotiating order passed by the Delhi High Court and hence it is not interfering in it. The court said that no case for interference under Article 136 of the Constitution has been made out in the special leave petition. On this ground the special leave petition is dismissed.
The matter was stayed by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court on September 27 last year, directing the AAP government to formulate a policy on the implementation of the Chief Minister’s announcement. Notice was issued on the appeal of Delhi Government against the order passed by.
Significantly, in March 2020, during the Corona period, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had appealed to the landlords of Delhi not to expel the tenants from the house for money. He had said that if no one is able to pay the rent due to poverty, then the Delhi government will pay it after the crisis of Corona is over. Kejriwal had appealed to the people leaving Delhi not to go anywhere. But later this speech was not implemented by the state.