2010 Supreme(SC) 154
Peoples Union of Civil Liberties – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant:M/s. Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate, Ms. Divya Jyoti & Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, Advocates. For the Respondents:M/s. P.P. Tripathi, Mohan Parasaran & Vivek Tankha, Additional Solicitor Generals, S.K. Dwivedi & Manjit Singh, Additional Advocate Generals, Dr. Manish Singhvi, Pramod Swarup & T.S. Doabia, Senior Advocates, Jana Kalyan Das, Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Somnath Padhan, B.V. Balaram Das, Ms. Indra Sawhney, Devanshu Kr. Devesh, Milind Kumar, Riku Sarma, M/s. Corporate Law Group, Ms. Rachana Srivastava, T.V. George, Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Girish Agrawal, Ranjan Mukherjee, V.G. Pragasam, S.J. Aristotle, Prabu Rama Subramanian, Jatinder Kr. Bhatia, R.K. Gupta, Rajeev Dubey, Ms. Vandana Mishra, Anil Kr. Jha, Kamlendra Mishra, Ravi Prakash Mehrotra, Gopal Singh, Manish Kumar, Rituraj Biswas, Tara Chandra Sharma, Ms. Neelam Sharma, Kumar Rajesh Singh, Ms. Prema Kumari Singh, B.B. Singh, Anil Shrivastav, Gopal Prasad, G.V. Chandrashekhar, N.K. Verma, Ms. Anjana Chandrashekhar, Ramesh Babu, M.R., Ms. D. Bharati Reddy, Sanjay R. Hegde, Ms. Sumita Hazarika, Kamal Mohan Gupta, Abhinav Mukerji, Ajay Pal, Kuldip Singh, Ms. A. Subhashini, Ravindra Keshavrao Adsure, Prashant Kumar, Vishwajit Singh, Sanjay U. Kharde, Ms. Asha G. Nair, D.L. Chidananda, S. Wasim A. Qadri, Ms. Sunita Sharma, Ms. Saima Bakshi, Ron Bastian, D.S. Mahra, Ms. Varuna Bhandari Gugnani, Ms. Sushma Suri, Ms. Anil Katiyar, K.V. Mohan, Rajesh Srivastava, Anuvrat Sharma, Pragyan P. Sharma, P.V. Yogeshwaran, K.N. Madhusoodhanan, R. Sathish, R.C. Kaushik, Pradeep Misra, Venkateswara Rao Anumolu, B.S. Banthia, G. Prakash, D.K. Sinha, Vikas Mehta, Naresh K. Sharma, Anis Suhrawardy, S.M. Jadhav, Balaji Srinivasan, B.D. Vivek, Ms. Madhusmita Bora, Edward Belho, Enatoli Sema, C.M.K. Kennedy, T. Harish Kumar, Prasanth P.V. Vasudevan, Sanjib Sen, Ms. Anuja Chopra, P. Parameswaran, V.B. Saharya (for M/s. Saharya and Co,), Ms. Aruna Mathur, Viman Dubey & Amarjeet Singh Girsa, Advocates.
Judgment :
In pursuance of the direction of this Court for providing shelter to shelterless people in Delhi, Mr. Mohan Parasaran, learned Additional Solicitor General appearing for NCT of Delhi has submitted a status report. In the status report it is mentioned that pursuant to the directions of this Court passed on 20-1-2010 People’s Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, 2010 (5) SCJ 185 = (2010) 5 SCC 423, an urgent meeting was called by the Chief Secretary, Government of NCT of Delhi to examine the problem of providing adequate shelter in the light of the prevailing cold weather conditions in the capital. The significant decisions taken in the meeting convened by the Chief Secretary, NCT of Delhi are as follows:
(1) It was decided to double the existing number of accommodations in the night-shelters through the Municipal Corporation of Delhi from the existing 5000 persons to a capacity of 10,000 persons.
(2) In the case of Revenue Department of Delhi Government, the increase was by 500 persons.
2. It is alsomentioned in the status report that subsequent to the directions passed by this Court, the Revenue Department of Delhi Government pitched in 7 more night-shelters tak
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