ORDER

One of the issues for consideration before this Court in this Public Interest Petition is the validity of the allotments of 52 shops/stalls made by Smt. Shiela Kaul. the then Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Government of India.

2. While monitoring this case, this Court has passed vaious interim orders from time to time. It would be useful to quote three such orders. The relevant part of the order dated April 17, 1996 is as under :

"The material placed before us inter alia, discloses that 41 shops/stalls allotted by Smt. Shiela Kaul on June 7, 1995 and 2 shops allotted on July 3, 1995 were in total contravention of the rules/policy approved by herself on December 26, 1994. These shops/stalls were situated in Lodhi Road Complex - I & II, Hanuman Road Market, Baba Kharak Singh Marg Market, DIZ area Market, and Pleasure Garden near Lajpat Nagar Market. The material on the record further shows that the said 43 shops/stalls were allotted by Smt. Shiela Kaul without issuing any public notice/inviting applications from the eligible persons which was in violation of the policy formulated by her on December 26, 1994. The material also discloses that orders of allotment in resp