W.P.(C) 4785/2008

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

Reserved on: 2^nd June, 2022

Pronounced on: 4^th July, 2022

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W.P.(C) 4785/2008 & CM APPL. 9216/2008

SAMARPAL & ORS

..... Petitioners

Through:

Mr. N.S. Dalal, Ms. Rachana

Dalal and Mr. Alok Kumar, Advs.

versus

UOI & ORS

..... Respondents

Through:

Mr. Parvinder Chauhan and

Mr. Sushil Dixit, Adv. for DUSIB

Ms. Geetanjali Mohan, Adv. for R-2

CORAM:

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR

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J U D G M E N T

04 .07.2022

1.

The homeless, who people the pavements, the footpaths, and

those inaccessible nooks and crannies of the city from where the

teeming multitude prefer to avert their eyes, live on the fringes of

existence. Indeed, they do not live, but merely exist; for life, with its

myriad complexions and contours, envisaged by Article 21 of our

Constitution, is unknown to them. Even a bare attempt at imagining

how they live is, for us, peering out from our gilt-edged cocoons,

cathartic. And so we prefer not to do so; as a result, these denizens of

This is a digitally signed Judgement.

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