Decide Plea For Conducting Door To Door Survey To Collect Senior Citizens Data Within 12 Weeks: High Court To Delhi Govt

The Delhi High Court has recently directed Delhi Government's Chief Secretary to decide within 12 weeks a plea to conduct a door to door survey to collect the data about total number of senior citizens in the national capital.

A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora directed the Chief Secretary to treat as representation a plea filed by one Salek Chand Jain to construct a new senior citizen home in every district of Delhi.

The plea further sought a direction to the Delhi Police to maintain a separate data of offences being committed against the senior citizens.

Jain's counsel submitted that presently there are only two senior citizens old age homes in the city being run and funded by the Delhi Government and one additional senior citizen home is being run by the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board.

He contended that the senior citizens are neglected and discriminated by their own families and they need special care, love and affection.

“Keeping in view the aforesaid, this Court directs the present writ petition to be treated as a representation to the Chief Secretary, GNCTD who, in turn, is directed to decide the same in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible, preferably within twelve (12) weeks,” the court said.

Counsel for Petitioner: Mr. Dinesh P. Rajbhar, Adv

Counsel for Respondents: Mr. Vineet Dhanda, CGSC with Mr. Abhishrut Singh and Mr. Abhijit Singh, Advs. Mr. Parvinder Chauhan, Ms. Aakriti Garg, Advs. for DUSIB; Ms. Anshula L Bakhru, Adv. for R-4

Title: SRI SALEK CHAND JAIN v. CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF NCT, DELHI & ORS.

Citation: 2024 LiveLaw (Del) 702

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