Sealing: SC panel takes stern view of MCD's failure

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court-appointed Monitoring Committee has taken a 'stern' view of the failure of the MCD to resume the sealing drive against unauthorised business establishments and has told the court about it.

The three-member committee in its report, which it submitted to the court on Friday, has taken into account the 'repeated failure' of the MCD in resuming the sealing drive despite its directions to do so, sources said.

The sources added that the committee has detailed the factual position with regard to the sealing drive, especially the developments over the last few days when the action, that was earlier scheduled to resume on November 1, was repeatedly deferred in the wake of a three-day bandh and the violence that followed.

The monitoring committee has, however, not made any recommendations with regard to whether the non-resumption of the court-ordered drive amounted to contempt as it was for the court to decide, the sources said.