DU hostel PIL: Delhi HC declines urgent hearing

Delhi High Court declines to grant urgent hearing for a PIL seeking hostel facilities for DU students. A bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia questioned the lawyer about wasting time and ordered the petition to be filed for auto-listing on Wednesday. The PIL was filed following the PG building collapse in Satya Niketan, where seven people died.

The court stated that a direction for hostel facilities cannot be issued in the interim, and the same issue was already addressed in another PIL on Monday. The lawyer argued that the other petition sought compensation for the deceased and injured, while his plea only asks for a direction to ensure every college has hostel facilities for students.

The high court also ordered a high-level MCD inquiry into the building collapse and directed authorities to double rescue efforts.