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Delhi govt moves SC to withdraw 7 cases filed during AAP rule challenging L-G's authority
May-22-2025

The Delhi government moved the Supreme Court to take back seven legal cases that were originally filed by the previous AAP-led government. 

These cases had challenged the authority of the lieutenant governor in several bodies, including one connected to Yamuna cleaning efforts. A bench comprising justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh directed that the application filed by the BJP-led Delhi government be listed for Friday.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Delhi government, said the application seeks the withdrawal of seven cases pending in the top court, which challenged the authority of the lieutenant governor (L-G) in several committees, including solid waste management, Yamuna cleaning, and against the validity of Acts and ordinances. 

Aishwarya Bhati stated in court, ’These matters should not trouble this court anymore’. Justice Surya Kant told Bhati, ‘We will list all these cases for Friday and take up the application.’

In one of the cases filed by the then-AAP government, the top court in July 2023 stayed a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order asking the L-G to head a high-level committee constituted to deal with issues concerning the rejuvenation of the Yamuna river. It agreed to hear the Delhi government’s plea against a January 19, 2023, order of the NGT and issued a notice to the petitioner on whose application the tribunal passed the order.


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