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2017 Supreme(SC) 1358

KURIAN JOSEPH, AMITAVA ROY
Sudama Singh – Appellant
Versus
Deepak Mohan Spolia – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Prashant Bhushan, Amiy Shukla, Shakti Vardhan, Advocates.
For the Respondent:Atmaram N.S. Nadkarni, ASG, Merusagar Samantray, A.K. Srivastava, Ms. Lhingneivah, B.V. Balramdas, B. Krishna Prasad, Ms. Uttara Babbar, Ms. Akanksha Choudhary, Ms. Bhawana Duhoon, Praveen Swarup, R.K. Singh, Tajinder Virdi, Lokender Kumar, Advocates.

JUDGMENT :

Kurian, J.

Leave granted.

2. The appellants are aggrieved since the High Court under the Contempt of Courts Act has clarified the judgment dated 11.2.2010 beyond what it has actually been intended to be, according to the appellants.

3. Short facts: Four writ petitions were filed as public interest litigations before the High Court (W.P. No.8904 and connected matters). The prayer in the writ petitions were more or less the same. We shall extract one set of prayers:

"(a). Issue a Writ of Mandamus or any other Writ or direction of similar nature to direct the Government of NCT of Delhi to provide suitable alternative accommodation to all inhabitants/slum dwellers of New Sanjay Camp.

(b). Direct the Respondents to compensate the Petitioners and the other residents for their enormous loss occurred in demolition of their juggies, which had been demolished arbitrarily without their adequate rehabilitation/relocation."

4. These writ petitions were disposed of by a common judgment dated 11.02.2010. The operative portion of the judgment contained in paragraphs 62 to 64, reads as follows:-

"62. It is declared that :

(i) The decision of the respondents holding that the petitioners are on the





















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