ORDER

By an order passed in April, 1996, this Court had directed that no non-conforming industry shall be permitted to carry on its activity after 31st of December, 1996. As a result thereof at least those industries which were operating in residential areas, whose operation did not conform with the provisions of the Master Plan, were required to stop their operation by 31st December, 1996.

2. Subsequent thereto orders were passed from time to time with regard to relocation of the non-conforming industries. Ultimately on 8th September, 1999 a Division Bench of this Court directed that the entire process of relocation of the industries should be completed by 31st December, 1999 and if the industries in the residential area could not be shifted and relocated for any reason whatsoever by 31st December, 1999 then those industries shall be closed down.

3. Thereafter various affidavits were filed on behalf of the Union of India, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and NCT, Delhi which show that there was a continuous breach of orders of this Court. Neither industrial estates had been established nor plots allotted to enable relocation nor units working in non-conforming areas including residenti