India, Sept. 4 -- The Supreme Court has summoned the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner at 3pm on Thursday over repeated disregard of the orders for the maintenance of the area around a 700-year-old Lodi-era protected monument in Defence Colony.

A bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and SVN Bhatti issued the direction after the court commissioner, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, showed photographs of the area when he visited the site on Wednesday. In his report, Sankaranarayanan said construction debris from a demolition was lying near the monument, Gumti of Shaikh Ali, for almost two months.

The bench asked, "Is there an ego issue? Having considered the matter, we feel there is too much miscommunication betwee...