New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994

Aggarwal and Modi Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. occupied the Chanakya Cinema Complex under a licence that expired on 30 September 2000. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) sought vacant possession and intended to dispose of the property by public auction under Section 141(2) of the NDMC Act, 1994, to obtain the maximum poss…

Dharm Chand, a hawker who had been allotted a Tehbazari kiosk opposite the Supreme Court, was ordered by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to relocate his stall to a site near Baroda House on security grounds following a bomb blast near the Delhi High Court in 2011. He challenged the order, invoking his constituti…

The respondents sought sanction for a two‑and‑a‑half‑storey building with 15 dwelling units on a plot in the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone (LBZ) of Delhi. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) rejected the plans, citing violation of LBZ guidelines dated 8 February 1988 issued by the Ministry of Urban Development. The High Co…

The Indian Red Cross Society owned a building in Delhi, part of which it occupied for its charitable offices and the rest it let out on rent. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) levied property tax on the entire building. The Society claimed exemption under Section 62(1) of the New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994,…

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) enacted the 2009 Determination of Annual Rent Bye‑laws, introducing a Unit Area Method (UAM) for fixing rateable value, replacing the earlier method based on annual rent under Section 63 of the NDMC Act, 1994. A batch of writ petitions filed by property owners challenged the const…

Amrik Singh Lyallpuri, a journalist, challenged the statutory provision that appeals from decisions of the Appellate Tribunal under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 and the New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 must be heard by the Administrator (the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi). The issue was whether such an…

The respondents were initially recruited as Mechanics (Auto) in the Auto Workshop of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and were paid under the Shiv Shankar Committee pay scale, which applied to the Electrical Wing. They were later promoted to the post of Assistant Engineer (E & M), and NDMC contended that this pos…

The petitioners, street hawkers and vendors in Delhi, challenged actions of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) that restricted their hawking activities, claiming a fundamental right under Article 19(1)(g). The Supreme Court reiterated that this right is subject to reasonable…

The landlord Atma Ram Properties sued its tenant Oriental Insurance for possession, claiming that a huge property tax payable under the New Delhi Municipal Council Act, 1994 could be treated as arrears of rent, raising the total rent above Rs.3,500 per month and thereby removing the tenant’s protection under the Delhi …

Dr. B.L. Wadehra filed a writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution seeking directions to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to perform their statutory duties of collecting, removing and disposing of garbage and other waste. The petition highlighted the severe po…