2010 Supreme(SC) 105
DALVEER BHANDARI, K.S.RADHAKRISHNAN
PEOPLE'S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES – Appellant
Versus
UNION OF INDIA – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate (Kishore Narayan and Ms Jyoti Mendiratta, Advocates) for the Petitioner;
Mohan Parasaran, Additional Solicitor General, Ms Jayshree Anand; Additional Advocate General, T.S. Doabia, Dr. Manish Singhvi and Pramod Swarup, Senior Advocates [So Wasim A. Qadri, Ms Sunita Sharma, Ms Sushma Suri. Ms Anil Katiyar, D.S. Mahra, Jana Kalyan Das, Ms Hemantika Wahi, Somanalh Pradhan, Boboy, B.V. Balaram Das, Pragyan P. Sharma, P.V. Yogeswaran, R.N. Updahyay, Ms Indra Sawhney, Devanshu Kr. Devesh, Milind Kumar, Riku Sharma (for M/s Corporate Law Group), A.P. Sahay, Ms Rachana Srivastava, Manoj Saxena, Mayank Nigam, T.V. George, Ms Kamini Jaiswal, Shish Pal Laler, Kh. Nobin Singh, Ranjan Mukherjee, V.G. Pragasam, S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Ramasubramanian, Jatinder Kr. Bhatia, S.K. Dwivedi, Ms Vandana Mishra, Manoj Kr. Dwivedi, G.V. Rao, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Rituraj Biswas, Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms Neelam Sharma, B.B. Singh, Kumar Rajesh Singh, Ms Prema Kumari Singh, Anil Shrivastav, Ritu Raj, Edward Belho, Enatoli Serna, Rituraj Biswas, T. Harish Kumar, Prasanth P., V. Vasudevan, Sanjiv Sen, Praveen Swarup, Ms Anuja Chopra, P. Parmeswaran, Atul Jha, D.K. Sinha, Gopal Prasad, G.V. Chandrashekhar, N.K. Verma, Ms Anjana Chandrashekar, Ramesh Babu M.R, Ms Anuradha Rustagi, Ms D. Bharati Reddy, Sanjay R Hegde, Ramesh Kr. Mishra, Vikrant Yadav, Ms Sumita Hazarika, K.K. Mahalik, Ajay Pal, Ms A. Subhashini, Kuldip Singh, RK. Pandey, T.P. Mishra, Sanjay Katyal, H.S. Sandhu, Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, Prashant Kumar, Vishwajit Singh, Sanjay V. Kbarde, Ms Asha G. Nair, K.V. Mohan, A.K. Panigrahi, N.M. Varghese, Tessy Varghese, Rajesh Srivastava, Anuvrat Sharma, K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, RC. Kaushik, Pradeep Misra, Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, Vikas Upadhyay, B.S. Banthia, G. Prakash, Navneet Kumar, Anil Kr. Jha, Vikas Mehta, Kamlendra Mishra, Naresh K. 'Sharma, Anis Suhrawardy, S. Mehdi Imam, Tabrez Ahmad and S.M. Jadhav, Advocates] for the Respondents.
ORDER
1. On 20-1-2010 an assurance was given to this Court on behalf of the learned Additional Solicitor General that immediate steps would be taken to provide night shelters to the homeless people by the Government in coordination with all the agencies, including the non-government organisations. He also assured that not only the existing facilities would be improved but also additional facilities would be created such as blankets, water and mobile toilets.
2. Mr. Mohan Parasaran, learned Additional Solicitor General has filed a status report today in Court. In the report it is mentioned that the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi had convened a high-level meeting with all the officers as well as interested parties at 4 p.m. on 20-1-2010 itself, in which some important decisions were taken. In the said meeting it was decided to double the existing number of accommodations in the night shelters through Municipal Corporation of Delhi from the existing 5000 persons to a capacity of 10,000 persons. In the case of the Revenue Department of the Delhi Government, the increase was by 500 persons.
3. It is also mentioned in the status report that subsequent to the directions passed
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