Decks appear to have been cleared for holding the World T20 matches at Ferozshah Kotla grounds here after the Delhi High Court today said grant of permission was entirely within the domain of the authorities concerned.
"Permissions are entirely within the domain of concerned agencies and not up to this court to deny or grant permission," a bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vibhu Bakhru said, adding "this order be not construed as if this court is interfering in the matter".
The court's order came after South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) told the bench that it has issued an occupancy certificate to DDCA for the stadium and that it was fully satisfied that the deviations have been rectified by the association in terms of the sanctioned plan of 2005.
However, it was also made clear by the SDMC that occupancy certificate was for the entire stadium barring R P Mehra block, which falls within the 100 m of a protected monument and thus lacks ASI clearance.
The bench said the issue of R P Mehra block was between DDCA and SDMC to sort it out.
Senior advocate Rajiv Nayar and advocate Sangram Patnaik, appearing for DDCA, told the court either they would try and get a clearance for the block by June 30 or they would demolish it, as they have no hesitation in doing so.