Paragraph numbers below are the court’s original numbering, recovered from the source text.
1. Sri Chaturvedi Committee (sole member) shall issue public notice in an English and a Hindi Newspaper (expenses to be borne by the NDMC) within 15 days from today permitting the eligible claimants so found eligible by the Thareja Committee to submit their application in Part I. containing G options in regard to the identified places and sizes (whether 6' x 4' or 4' x 3') )'\ .. in the particular zone to which these claims belong. The public notice in he newspaper will state that the details regarding the available sites and their locations and size is put up on the Notice Boards of the NDMC at various place, whose addresses are given. The notice will also require the claimants to state in Part II of their applications the details as to payment of Tehbazari H ' .. [1998] l S.C.R. A charges due after 1.1.1990 and if there are or not any arrears as on date. The notice will also be put up in the various offices of the NDMC within the above -r …. said period. The notice in NDMC office will also give a detailed list of the places available for squatting/hawking and stating whether it is a kiosk/stall or a place for mere vending on Tehbazari basis as decided by the Thareja B Committee and indicating their sizes (6' x 4' or 4' x 3').
2. The eligible claimants will be given 3 weeks time to file in Part I of their application their three options, indicating the zone concerned, their seniority as decided by Thareja Committee, stating whether they come under any reseivation category, the type of trade they have been trading in or the C new trade for which they have applied to the NDMC and such other particulars as may be called for or relevant. In Part II the eligible claimants shall° specify if they have made payments of Tehbazari arrears due for tl1e period after 1.1.1990 and if there are any arrears as on date.
3. After receipt of the claims, Committee shall issue notice to the D concerned parties and the NDMC in regard to each of the places at which squatting/hawking is permitted as per the Thareja Committee Report and decide on the basis of seniority and reseivation, size of place and such other relevant material as may be placed before the Committee, as to who should be allotted at what place. The Committee shall fix up dates of hearing by issuing Registered A.D. notices to the parties concerned. (The expenditure in E this behalf shall be borne by the NDMC.) The Committee shall give an opportunity of being heard and pass reasoned orders and its decisions shall be final and shall not be questioned ·before any other authority, tribunal, Court, nor the High Court nor in this Court.
4. It shall however be open to Sri Chatuivedi to obtain, if necessary, such directions or clarifications from this Court by way of filing IAs in this SLP, even though it is now disposed of.
5. The claimants will be permitted to appear before the Chatuivedi Committee either in person or through their counsel.
6. In case it is decided by the Chatuivedi Committee after the hearing of the case in Part II that any eligible claimant is in arrears of tehbazari dues for any period after 1.1.1990 then the said Committee shall fix a date before which the arrears have to be paid and informing that if the amount is not paid by that date, the claimant will lose his claim for the kiosk/stall or for tile place. H In case the claimant default in payment by such date fixed and the claimants _, SODAN SINGH v. N.D.M.C. [M. JAGANNADHA RAO, J.] rights cease as stated above, the Chaturvedi Committee will consider if the A vacancy can be allotted to any other claimant already declared eligible by the Thareja Committee.
7. In case any of the placed found eligible for kiosks/stalls by the Thareja Committee are not accepted by the Urban Arts Commission or the B Archaeological Survey of India and the Department of Archaeology of the Govt. of NCT, the said places meant for kiosks/stall shall be available for tehbazari and the Chaturvedi Committee shall pass appropriate orders of allotment on that basis. As and when the above said authorities inform the NDMC that the places earmarked for kiosks/stalls are not acceptable for that purpose, the NDMC shall inform the Chaturvedi Committee about the said C decision. (We have already observed that pending construction of kiosk/stall the claimant tentatively allotted the place or other person authorisedly using the place for vending on Tehbazari; shall continue. We also said unauthorised persons vending at these places be evicted by the NDMC forthwith.) For the purpose of obtaining clearance for the said authority, the NDMC is granted time upto 30.6.1998 and for construction of the Kiosks/stalls upto 31.l 0.1998.
8. In regard to eviction of unauthorised squatters or other persons using the places identified by the Thareja Committee the NDMC has E undertaken to have them evicted forthwith and in case this is not done, it will be open to the Chaturvedi Committee to bring it to the notice of this Court for appropriate orders, as stated earlier.
9. The NDMC in general and the Director of Estates and the Director of Enforcement in particular will help and implement the decisions, directions F or orders of Sri V.C. Chaturvedi. The NDMC shall also provide the other infrastructure to Sri Chaturvedi as stated in the main body of this order and pay his remuneration (in regard to which we are passing separate orders in this SLP) . I 0. The decisions of the Chaturvedi Committee both on the question of G allotment of the kiosk/stall or the sites for tehbazari and also as to quantum of arrears of tehbazari shall be final as indicted in the body of this order and shall not be questioned either by the claimants or the NDMC before any authority. Tribunal, a Court of Law, the High Court or in this Court. No petition shall be registered in this behalf by the above bodies. We have only H [ 1998) I S.C.R. A pennitted the Chaturvedi Committee to file !As in the appeal seeking any direction or clarification and none others. So far as orders ofNDMC in regard to change of trade, it is open to the affected parties to resort to all appropriate remedies. We have so pennitted Sri Chaturvedi to move this court in certain respects. The above summary is in addition to directions contained in the main body of this Judgment. The Civil Appeal stands disposed of. R.P. Appeal disposed of. t::