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Delhi High Court: The Supreme Court has refused to ban the action of bulldozers on three temples located in Mayur Vihar Phase 2. The country’s Supreme Court has dismissed the petition seeking a stay and asked the petitioners to go to the Delhi High Court. DD Mayur Vihar arrived to take action on three temples at Phase-2. Seeing the claws (bulldozers) of the Delhi administration, the local people living there started committing uproar and protests, after which the action had to be stopped.
Mayur Vihar Phase 2 has three temples. East Delhi Kali Bari Committee, Shri Amarnath Temple Institute and Shri Badrinath Temple. The committees of these three temples have challenged the demolition notice issued by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on 19 March 2025 in the Supreme Court. The petition filed through advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain stated that the officials put a public notice at 9 pm on Wednesday night and said that the temples would be demolished on 20 March 2025 at 4 am.
Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain said in the petition that ‘no opportunity will be given to the temples by any DDA officer or any religious committee.’ The petition states that the temple is 35 years old and the DDA had allowed the Kali Bari Committee the temple to perform Durga Puja in the front ground of the temple. The Supreme Court has refused to consider the petition of the temples and asked them to go to the Delhi High Court.
The DDA team reached Mayur Vihar Phase-2 faced opposition from the local people. Patparganj MLA Ravindra Singh Negi assured the people that ‘Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has imposed an indefinite ban on the proceedings’. The team of Delhi Development Authority also later returned. After this the matter reached the Supreme Court.
