Delhi High Court on Monday reserved judgment in a plea seeking temporary suspension of work on Central Vista Redevelopment Project in light of second wave of Covid-19. Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, representing the petitioner, said in the court that government’s Central Vista project should now be called the ‘Central fortress of death.’
The remarks come as a bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh was hearing a plea against the construction of the project in the national capital in the backdrop of the second wave. The Centre has been facing flak from the opposition for executing the project at time of Covid emergency.