Delhi HC seeks Centre's reply on plea for damages to property forfeited during 1975 Emergency
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the Centre and the Directorate of Estates on an application seeking damages related to a property in Lutyens’ zone, which was wrongfully forfeited in proceedings arising out of the National Emergency imposed by the Government of India in 1975. The children of a 94-year-old woman Veera Sarin had knocked the doors of the Delhi High Court seeking damages. Sarin had recently approached the Supreme Court seeking the declaration of the National Emergency imposed by the government in 1975 as ‘unconstitutional’. The suit filed before the h...