Maken and the NGOs, in their applications, said the high court on October 5 had ruled that its September 9 order that no street vendor should be evicted from city roads without due process of law, shall not be applicable on non-hawking zones.
They contended that under the garb of this order, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) have started throwing out people even from hawking zones like Rajiv Chowk, Indira Chowk and Lajpat Nagar.
The bench said passing another order, as sought by the applicants, would not ensure compliance of the same and asked the authorities to file their reply to the pleas and listed the matter for hearing on October 19.
The applicants have sought that NDMC and other municipal corporations be restrained from taking any coercive action against street vendors in any area, which has not been declared as a 'no-vending zone' under the earlier scheme.
They said that street vendors were being removed even from Palika Bazaar where they have been selling their wares for the last several decades.
NDMC, represented by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Sanjay Jain, said it had removed only 60 persons from its area and that too as per orders of another bench of the high court.
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