A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice G P Mittal issued notice to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution as well as Delhi government and sought their replies by August 12 on the PIL which has claimed that use of the illegal ration cards has caused loss of thousands of crores to the public exchequer.
The court also asked the ministry to inform it on the next date as to what was the situation in other states.
The plea, filed through advocates Anuj Arya and Ravin Rao, has sought an investigation into the alleged "fraud" in issuance of rations cards and the illegal transactions carried out by using them.
Shyam said he came to know about the alleged scam when he tried to ascertain whether there were any irregularities in issuance of ration cards.
He has said in his plea he had never applied for a ration card or made a food security application and his mother's name was Radha Devi.
"The petitioner (Shyam Sunder) went to Food Corporation of India's office in Narela and found out that the said ration card was used to avail six kgs of rice every month from ration shop for the period of February, 2015 to April, 2015," the petition said.