HC Seeks AAP Govt Stand on Plea to Strike Down Delhi Minorities Commission Act, Remove Chairperson

The Delhi High Court has sought the AAP authorities’s response to a plea claiming that the Delhi Minorities Commission Act was invalid and trying to find the elimination of DMC chairperson Zafarul Islam Khan.

A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula requested the Delhi authorities and the Lieutenant Governor’s office to file a standing report regarding the allegations throughout the petition and listed the matter for listening to on Thursday, May 21.

Delhi authorities further standing counsel Anupam Srivastava, who moreover appeared for the LG’s office, knowledgeable the courtroom that in a single different petition trying to find elimination of Khan from his submit, a single determine bench had on May 11 requested the administration to take a selection on the problem expeditiously as his time interval is able to run out on July 14.

The latest petition, by social worker Vikram Gahlot, has contended that the Delhi Legislative Assembly did not have the powers to enact the DMC Act and as a consequence of this reality, the statute be declared as extraordinarily vires the Constitution and be struck down.

Gahlot has moreover contended that as a result of the Act was not legit, the appointments made beneath it, along with that of the chairman, would even be invalid.