Friday, 25 February 2022 | PNS | Nainital
Regarding the setting up of the weekly Sunday market in Dehradun, the Uttarakhand high court has issued a contempt notice to the Dehradun municipal commissioner for not acting on the earlier orders of the court. Issuing the contempt notice, the single bench of justice Manoj Kumar Tiwari has directed the municipal commissioner to reply within three weeks. In the past, the court had ordered that the land selected for the Sunday market on the Haridwar bypass road should be cleaned within three weeks and made available to the vendors for setting up the weekly market.According to the case details, the weekly Sunday market welfare association head Heera Lal had filed a petition in the high court stating that the Sunday market is being held every week on the road between Tibetan market and the Parade Ground in Dehradun since 2004.More than 300 vendors used to set up their stalls in this weekly market, paying Rs 300 per stall every month as rent to the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD). The petitioner has stated that during 2004, the Dehradun district magistrate had allocated this particular stretch for setting up the Sunday market. However, the MCD sited court orders passed in a PIL to evict the vendors from the old site of the Sunday market.He alleged that some influential persons were provided place to set shop elsewhere by the MCD. According to the petitioner, the whole market remains closed on Sundays and the traffic also is comparatively less which is why they used to hold the Sunday market near the Parade Ground. He further states that the Sunday market provides the people to buy items for cheap while also providing employment to a number of people who used to set shop four days in a month.
