India, March 13 -- New Delhi

The Delhi high court on Wednesday pulled up the Union government for its failure to indicate a timeline to formulate a policy for regularising south Delhi's Sainik Farm colony. It proposed passing an order directing all authorities in the Capital to redress grievances faced by residents by making a collective decision.

A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela expressed displeasure after the Union housing and urban ministry's counsel Rakesh Kumar failed to come up with a policy decision-with regard to a previous order, on February 6-and submitted that the Union government, by way of its notification in 2019, had decided not to regularise 69 affluent colonies, including Sainik Farm an...