India, May 19 -- The Union government has told the Supreme Court that implementation of the 30-year-old Delhi Rent Act (DRA) of 1995 cannot be done by a judicial order as the date for notifying the law is a policy decision that must await the socio-economic and administrative environment to be "conducive".

The response of the Centre came over a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by a lawyer Shobha Aggarwal who questioned the dormant law lying in limbo for over three decades without any response forthcoming from the Centre for notifying it. In January, the top court had sought the Centre's response and given it further time in March pursuant to which an affidavit was filed last week.

The Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (M...