New Delhi, Feb. 14 -- The Appellate Tribunal of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), presided over by Additional District and Sessions Judge Abhilash Malhotra, has directed the MCD to reconsider a regularization application independently, ensuring it is not influenced by unauthorized constructions on other floors.

The judgment arose from a case where Mrs Gagandeep Kaur Bhasin and her family challenged MCD's rejection of their third-floor property's regularization in Chittaranjan Park. The MCD had refused to regularize the appellants' third-floor property on the grounds that non-compoundable deviations existed on the other floors, owned by other persons.

However, during the proceedings, the MCD itself admitted in multiple status rep...