SC orders status quo in Taj Mansingh hotel auction process

November 21, 2016 13:56

The Supreme Court today directed that status quo be maintained with regard to New Delhi Municipal Council's auctioning process of the iconic Taj Mansingh Hotel in Delhi, run by Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL).

A bench of justices P C Ghose and U U Lalit, which is hearing IHCL's plea against a high court order allowing its auctioning, also refused NDMC's prayer that the hotel should be restrained from taking any fresh booking.

The court said "it's very difficult to restrain the fresh bookings for a running hotel. Everything will be decided when we hear the matter."

The bench posted the matter for further hearing on the second week of January.

IHCL, which runs the Taj Mansingh Hotel in the national capital, had on November 8 approached the apex court against the Delhi High Court order that cleared the decks for auctioning of the iconic property. The firm had challenged the October 27 verdict delivered by a division bench of high court which had dismissed IHCL's petition challenging the move by New Delhi Municipal Council to auction the property.

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