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Manish Sisodia& Mayor ShellyOberoi Press Conference for The MCD House gathering had been adjourned until October 5 On Friday successful New Delhi Express Photo ByAmit Mehra 27 September 2024
The BJP Friday knocked connected the Supreme Court’s doorway seeking urgent proceeding of its plea to initiate contempt of tribunal proceedings against Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi implicit the behaviour of predetermination to capable the vacancy successful the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).
Senior advocator Sonia Mathur mentioned the exertion earlier Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud who said helium volition look into it.
The plea filed done Advocate Shoumendu Mukherji said determination was a “willful and deliberate disobedience by the Respondent Mayor of Delhi (MCD) of the” SC bid dated August 5, 2024, passed successful a writ petition “for holding elections to the station rendered vacant of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi connected relationship of Ms Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Municipal Councillor, Ward No. 120 (Dwarka-B) being elected arsenic a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)”.
The exertion pointed retired that according to the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957, specified vacancies person to beryllium filled wrong a play of a month.
But connected September 26, the Mayor “arbitrarily postponed the predetermination to 05.10.2024, starring to concerns that the antiauthoritarian process was being deliberately obstructed”.
This led to the involution of Lieutenant-Governor V K Saxena who directed that the predetermination beryllium held by the extremity of the time connected September 26. But the Mayor arbitrarily deferred this too, successful usurpation of the SC’s August 5 order, the BJP alleged.
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