K. Ramamoorthy, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a Text Book example of law breakers attempting to establish wrongsthrough process of law seeking the imprimatur this Court. This is the meat of thematter.

( 2 ) THE concerned authorities had prepared plans regulating the construction ofbuildings by virtue of powers conferred on them by various statutes. The wholescheme of the Act, Rules, Regulations and Bye-laws is based on the thinking thatsense of the ordinary peace living in the city and its surroundings by modern men willbe shocked if structures are allowed to come up unregulated. One cannot ignore thatthe object of the law is to instil orderliness in matters of public welfare and compelpublic to conform to certain rules, the non compliance whereof will result itself indislocation of normal living which the rules are intended to assure to the people. Thelocal bodies are empowered to develop lands, to provide basic amenities, to disposeof developed lands, to put up complexes, residential and commercial, according to theneeds and aspirations of the people. The development of Delhi was not a little owingto the untiring efforts of DDA, MCD, National Capital Territory of Delhi and theunion of India.

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