If Delhi has to collapse, let it collapse: Angry SC bench to Centre

"If Delhi has to collapse, let it collapse," an angry bench of the Supreme Court Thursday said while questioning the efficiency of officers who are supposed to look after issues related to unauthorised constructions in the national capital. The bench of justices Madan B Lokur, M M Shantanagoudar and S Adbul Nazeer came down heavily on the Centre for not giving details of the survey of houses conducted in south Delhi's Amar Colony area. "You have to admit this fact, which you are not, that your people (officials) are not doing the work either as per the law or as per orders of the Supreme Court," the bench told Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni, representing the Centre. The issue cropped up when the court was hearing the matter related to sealing of unauthorised constructions in Delhi. The ASG told the court that a joint survey was conducted in the south Delhi area by South Delhi Municipal Corporation and Land and Development Office (L&DO) in August and the report .

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