{"id":29608,"date":"2026-07-02T05:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hc-refers-plea-to-do-away-with-iron-grilles-in-bldgs-to-mcd-for-action-delhi-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:22:23","slug":"hc-refers-plea-to-do-away-with-iron-grilles-in-bldgs-to-mcd-for-action-delhi-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/hc-refers-plea-to-do-away-with-iron-grilles-in-bldgs-to-mcd-for-action-delhi-news\/","title":{"rendered":"HC refers plea to do away with iron grilles in bldgs to MCD for action | Delhi News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-47529300,imgsize-110164,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/47529300.jpg\" alt=\"HC refers plea to do away with iron grilles in bldgs to MCD for action\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>New Delhi: Noting that it can\u2019t pass orders on such an \u201comnibus\u201d plea, Delhi High Court Wednesday sent to the MCD a PIL seeking to identify and remove hazardous cage-like iron grille enclosures and illegal projections in residential buildings that allegedly obstruct evacuation and rescue during emergencies.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>\u201cIt is like demanding to remove poverty from India. We can\u2019t hear such an omnibus prayer. You have to give specific examples in your petition,\u201d a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia told the petitioner.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>It asked the MCDi commissioner to take an informed decision on a representation already pending with it, sent by the same petitioner earlier.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Petitioner Ashish Jain submitted that repeated residential fire tragedies in Delhi have exposed a serious safety concern, with the loss of life not only because of the fire but also because of smoke-filled buildings, enclosed balconies, iron grilles and blocked escape routes preventing timely rescue.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The plea cites several fire tragedies, including the Vivek Vihar blaze on May 3, in which nine people died after being trapped inside a residential building filled with flames and smoke, and the Palam fire in March that killed nine members of a family.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/delhi\/hc-refers-plea-to-do-away-with-iron-grilles-in-bldgs-to-mcd-for-action\/articleshow\/132120319.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Noting that it can\u2019t pass orders on such an \u201comnibus\u201d plea, Delhi High Court Wednesday sent to the MCD a PIL seeking to identify and remove hazardous cage-like iron grille enclosures and illegal projections in residential buildings that allegedly obstruct evacuation and rescue during emergencies.\u201cIt is like demanding to remove poverty from India. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}