The Supreme Court ordered South Delhi's Municipal Body (now Municipal Corporation of Delhi) to grant Rs. 10 Lakh compensation for harassing a family for over 15 years by refusing permission to rebuild their 85-year-old dilapidated house.

The respondents sought to demolish an eighty-five-year-old dilapidated house at Darya Ganj, New Delhi and construct a new residential house. Plans were submitted to the South Delhi Municipal Corporation in 2010, but no decision was taken. The respondents then applied to the Tribunal under Section 347A of the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act,1957, which granted deemed sanction. The SDMC's appeal and subsequent writ petition in the Delhi High Court were dismissed, leading to the present appeal.

The SDMC argued that under the relevant Master Plan (MPD-2021)

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