The Supreme Court granted time
till May 31 to Sharad Yadav to vacate his bungalow, on humanitarian grounds.
New Delhi, 31.3.2022, Thursday :
The Supreme Court on Thursday
directed the former union minister Sharad Yadav to vacate the official bungalow
allotted to him as a Member of Parliament in Lutyens Delhi till May 31, 2022.
A bench of Justices DY
Chandrachud, Sanjiv Khanna and Surya Kant granted time till May 31 to Mr Yadav
to vacate his bungalow, on humanitarian grounds. It has asked Mr Yadav to
furnish an undertaking within a week to the effect that he will vacate the
bungalow by then.
The bench said that in the
event of failure to submit the undertaking within a week, Mr Yadav will have to
vacate the premises immediately in compliance with an order of the Delhi High
Court.
"Having heard the
counsel, we are of the view that the end of justice would be met purely on
humanitarian grounds, if the time to vacate the premises is granted to the
petitioner under May 31, 2022 subject to his filing an undertaking that he
shall vacate on or before the said date. The undertaking shall be filed within
a period of one week from today failing which the petitioner shall lose the
benefit of this order and would be liable to vacate immediately as per the
order of the High Court," the order of the top court stated.
Mr Yadav, disqualified from
Rajya Sabha membership in December 2017, had approached the apex court seeking
to retain his bungalow and challenged the Delhi High Court's March 15 order by
which it asked him to vacate the government bungalow in 15 days.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal,
appearing for Mr Yadav, argued that it may be possible to resolve the matter at
this stage if reasonable time is granted to the petitioner to vacate the
premises.
He added that having due
regard to the fact that Mr Yadav is in serious medical condition at present, he
seeks to vacate the premises by May 31, 2022, and would file an undertaking to
this effect.
Additional Solicitor General
Sanjay Jain, appearing for the Centre, claimed that for the past 15 days Mr
Yadav has been attending public functions.