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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Judgement reserved on: 02.12.2025

Judgement delivered on:24.12.2025

+ LPA 553/2019, CM APPL. 38711/2019 and CM APPL.

38714/2019

PANCHKUIAN FURNITURE MARKET ASSOCIATION

.....Appellant

Through: Mr. Harish Malhotra and Mr.

Lovkesh Sawhney, Senior Advocates along with Mr. Anoop Kumar, Mr. Kartik Dhingra and Mr. Rohit Kumar,

Advocates.

versus

DELHI METRO RAIL CORPORATION & ANR.

.....Respondents

Through: Mr. Pushkar Sood, SPC along

with Ms. Shikha Sood, Mr. Anmol Vashisht and Mr. Samarth Sood, Advocates for

R-1.

Ms. Manisha Agrawal Narain, CGSC with Mr. Navneet

Saharan, Advocate.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KSHETARPAL

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH VAIDYANATHAN

SHANKAR

J U D G E M E N T

HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR, J.

1. The present Letters Patent Appeal, seeks to challenge the Judgment dated 29.05.2019, Impugned Judgement passed by the learned Single Judge of

this Court in case being W.P.(C) 7775/2016, titled as ‘Panchkuian Furniture Market Association (Regd.) v. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation & Anr’.

2. By way of the Impugned Judgement, the learned Single Judge has rejected the contentions of the Appellant to the effect that the sub-lease in favour of the members of