India, May 26 -- Centre told the Delhi high court on Tuesday that it has given the Delhi Gymkhana Club, or DGC, an opportunity to vacate the premises "on its own" and that if they do not vacate on their own, it is not that the police will rush in and the Centre will take forcible possession of the premises.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the high court that possession will be taken in accordance with the law.

"We cannot go and get it vacated," he told the single-judge bench of justice Avneesh Jhingan.

"We will not take possession except in accordance with the procedure as per law. It cannot be on the 5th, because we will have to issue notice, etc. It's not that on the 5th, somebody will grant consent," the law officer further said...