Overview
- Justice Amit Bansal held that the structures violated the right to live with dignity in a clean and healthy environment under Article 21.
- The order, passed on February 16, directs the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to remove the open dustbin and public urinal beside the petitioner’s house.
- MCD was further directed to provide a proper covered dustbin for segregation of dry and wet waste at an appropriate distance from the property.
- Petitioner Rachit Gupta, a lawyer, said roughly 150 residents used the bin and urinal and that repeated requests to civic officials brought no effective relief.
- Photographs on record showed unhygienic conditions the court called “undoubtedly a nuisance,” outweighing MCD’s claim of regular cleaning and an infeasible alternative site.