New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre to decide on the regularisation of South Delhi's Sainik Farms colony saying its "fate" had to be decided ultimately. A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhayaya and Tushar Rao Gedela, while dealing with petitions, including one filed in 2015, for the colony's regularisation, said the matter could not be kept pending and asked the Centre's counsel to take "complete instructions".

"You seek instruction from the government of India on what it has done. Why should such a matter be kept pending? The fate of the colony has to be decided. We can't permit it to go on and on like this. You have to take a decision," it said. Following its orders in 2022 and 2023, the Court said the Ce...