India, March 31 -- The Delhi High Court has ordered the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take immediate steps for removing unauthorised vendors operating in Nehru Place District Commercial Complex, citing that the premises is a "no-vending" and "no-hawking" zone.

A bench of justices Prathiba M. Singh and Madhu Jain in the order released on Monday said that allowing hawkers and vendors in the Nehru Place area has raised safety and security concerns and only a limited number of authorised vendors are permitted to operate there.

The court in its verdict delivered on March 24 emphasised that even for authorised ones, the Supreme Court has passed relocation orders.

"Judicial notice can be taken that Nehru Place has been declared as a...