The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to transfer proceedings pending before the Delhi High Court concerning the Satya Niketan building collapse, which claimed the lives of seven persons and injured 12 others. The Court instead requested the High Court to continue monitoring the matter at short intervals while directing authorities to file affidavits before the Supreme Court on compliance with its earlier directions concerning safety of buildings being used as paying guest (PG) accommodations.
The Bench of Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice R. Mahadevan was informed that the Delhi High Court, in proceedings arising from the Satya Niketan incident, had on September 7 directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to undertake an exercise and submit a report. The High Court matter is scheduled for September 25. The Supreme Court was also informed that inspections had been carried out in specified areas of Delhi and Lucknow.
The Amicus Curiae suggested that the Delhi HC proceedings either be transferred and tagged with the present case or that the authorities be directed to continue complying with the High Court’s directions while also submitting a comprehensive report to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court accepted the latter course, stating that it would “for the present, not disturb the position of the case before the High Court” and requested the High Court to monitor the matter at short intervals.
The Court further directed the concerned parties to file affidavits “not limited to Delhi and Lucknow” regarding compliance with its directions issued on March 25 and August 5, 2026. The matter will next be taken up on September 15 at 2 PM.
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Appearances
Petitioners: Ms. Purnima Krishna, AoR Mr. N. Rajaraman, AoR Mr. Atul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sweety Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Pandey, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Joshi, Adv. Mr. Harsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Viplak Parashar, Adv. Ms. Divya Sharma, Adv.
Intervenor: Mr. Atul Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sweety Singh, Adv. Mr. Rahul Pandey, Adv. Ms. Deeksha Joshi, Adv. Mr. Harsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Viplak Parashar, Adv. Ms. Divya Sharma, Adv.
Respondents: Mr. Shoaib Fazil, Adv. Mr. Kamesh Gaud, Adv. Ms. Pooja Lakshmi, Adv. Mr. B. Karunakaran, AoR Ms. Mirdula Singh, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Kumar Mudgal, Adv. Mr. Anupam Kumar Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akhileshwar Jha, Adv. Ms. Pooja Singh, Adv. Ms. G. Indira, AoR Mr. K. V. Mohan, AoR Mr. Rachit Mittal, AoR Mr. Parish Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kanishk Raj, Adv. Ms. Srishti Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Shivansh Bansal, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Kiran, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shreyansi Kunwar, AoR Mr. Deepesh Raj, Adv. Mr. Abhishek, Adv. Mr. Anuj Bhandari, Adv. Ms. Jahanvi Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AoR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Arijeet Shukla, Adv. Ms. Rakshita, Adv. Ms. Mithu Jain, AoR Ms. Diksha Arora, Adv. Ms. Akansha, AoR Ms. Eliza Barr, Adv. Ms. Anjali Saxena, Adv. Mr. Sanchit Garga, AoR Mr. Shashwat Jaiswal, Adv. Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AoR Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv. Mr. S. D. Sanjay Bihar, Advocate General Mr. Manish Kumar, AoR Mr. Divyansh Mishra, Adv. Mr. Kumar Saurav, Adv. Ms. Sugandha Jain,sc, Adv. Mr. Prabodh Kumar, AoR Ms. Nidhi Mittal, AoR Ms. Aastha Mehta, Adv. Mr. Gursharan H. Virk, Adv. Mr. Simranjit H. Virk, Adv. Ms. Nency Sheth, Adv. Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AoR Ms. Prerana Mohapatra, Adv. Ms. Prina Sharma, Adv. Ms. Priyal Sheth, Adv. Mr. Mohit Paul, AoR Ms. Rangoli Seth, Adv. Mr. Rohit, Adv. Mr. Anurag Pratyush Sahay, AoR Mr. Anup Kumar Rattan, Advocate General Mr. Kartikeya Rastogi, D. A. G. Ms. Inderdeep Kaur Raina, Adv. Ms. Tamanna Kavdia, Adv. Ms. Pallavi Langar, AoR Ms. Anushka Raghunath, Adv. Mr. Sujeet Kumar Chaubey, Adv. Mr. Nishanth Patil, AoR Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv. Ms. Bhumi Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Gupta, Adv. Mr. Awanish Gupta, Adv. Ms. Harshita Jain, Adv. Ms. Vaishnavi R. Patil, Adv. Dr. Kp Kylasnatha Pillay, Sr. Adv. Ms. Rashmi Singhania, AoR Mr. Nitish Pande, Adv. Mr. Zulfiker Ali P. S, AoR Mr. Vardhman Kaushik , AoR Mr. Dhruv Joshi, Adv. Ms. Manisha T. Karia, Sr. A. A. G. Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AoR Mr. H. K. Chaturvedi, AoR Mrs. Anjali Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Sagar Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AoR Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv. Mr. Sourav Singh, Adv. Ms. Chitransha Singh Sikarwar, Adv. Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AoR Mr. Karun Shamra, Adv. Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv. Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv. Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AoR Mr. Upendra Mishra, Adv. Mr. P.S Negi, Adv. Mr. Ganesh Malviya, Adv. Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv Mr. Daniel Stone Lyngdoh, Adv. Mr. T. K. Nayak, Adv. Ms. Marbiang Khongwir, Adv. Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AoR Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Ms. Yanmi Phazang, Adv. Ms. Mrinal Gopal Elker, Adv. MR. Srajan Yadva, Adv. Mr. Hitendra Nath Rath, AoR Dr. Niranjan Moharana, Adv. Mr. Amitabh Panda, Adv. Ms. Laxmi, Adv. Mr. Brijender Chahar, A. S. G. Mr. Ronak Karanpuria, AoR Mr. Rohit Gautam, Adv. Mr. Amit Kuri, Adv. Mr. Kartik Chaurasia, Adv. Ms. Khushbu Sinha, Adv. Mr. Roman Khan, Adv. Mr. Samir Malik, Adv. Ms. Nilanjana Gautam, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, A. A. G. Mr. Saurabh Rajpal, AoR Ms. Shalini Singh, Adv. Mr. Basava Prabhu S Patil, Adv. Gen.for State Of Sikkim, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AoR Ms. Yachna Sharma, Adv. Mr. Arijeet Shukla, Adv. Mr. Samarth Kashyap, Adv. Ms. Devina Sehgal, A Mr. Srikanth Varma Mudunuru, Adv. Mr. Yatharth Kansal, Adv. Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Shashank Singh, AoR Mr. Abhishek Saket, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Kumar, AoR Ms. Manisha, Adv. Ms. Rupali, Adv. Mr. Prashanto Chandra Sen, AAG, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kavitha Nityanandam Rameshwar, AAG Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee, AoR Mr. Swapnil Pattanayak, Adv. Ms. Kratika Kushwaha, Adv. Ms. Meghna Nag, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AoR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Varij Nayan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, AoR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AoR Mr. S. D. Sanjay, A. S. G. Mr. Sanjiv Sen, Sr. Adv. Mr. Praveen Swarup, Adv. Mr. Prahalad Balaji, Adv. Mr. Rohit Swarup, Adv. Mr. Yunus Malik, Adv. Mr. Ravi Kumar, Adv. Ms. Ashu Tomar, Adv. Mr. Kunal Vinayak, Adv. Ms. Aranya Sahay, Adv. Mr. Akshay Verma, AoR Mr. Udit, Adv. Ms. Sushma Verma, Adv. Mr. Govil Yadav, Adv. Mr. Rajneesh Kumar, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Vineet Singh, Adv. Mr. Krishna Kant Dubey, Adv. Mr. Bhuvan Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Yogesh Vats, Adv. Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AoR Mr. Aravindh S., AoR Ms. Anika Bansal, Adv. Mr. Aadithya Aravindh, Adv. Miss Madhulika Upadhyay, AoR Mrs. Aishwray Bhati, A. S. G. Mrs. Madhulika Upadhyay, Aor, Adv. Ms. Shivika Mehra, Adv. Mr. Arun Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. A Deb Kumar, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Binay Kumar Das, AoR Ms. Priyanka Das, Adv. Ms. Neha Das, Adv. Mr. Shivam Saksena, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A. A. G. Mr. Rahul Khurana, AoR Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv. Ms. Bhavya Singla, Adv. Ms. Kriti, Adv. Mr. Malak Manish Bhatt, AoR Ms. Tashi Saraf, Adv. Mr. Lokesh Sinhal, Sr. A. A. G. Mr. Shekhar Raj Sharma, A. A. G. Mr. Samar Vijay Singh, AoR Ms. Nidhi Narwal, Adv. Ms. Srishti Jain, Adv. Mr. Nikunj Gupta, Adv. Mr. Aman Dev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Sabarni Som, Adv. Mr. Varun Prasad, Adv. Mr. Deepak Aggarwal, Adv Mr. Siddhesh Shirish Kotwal, AoR Ms. Anupriya Poddar, Adv. Mr. T. Illayarasu, Adv. Mr. Saurabh Guha, Adv. Mr. Km Nataraj, ASG Mr. Anil Kaushik, ASG Mr. Sharan Dev Singh Thakur, Sr. A. A. G. Ms. Ruchira Goel, AoR Mr. Siddharth Thakur, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Indira Bhakar, Adv. Mr. Sharanya, Adv. Ms. Rishika Rishabh, Adv. Ms. Krithi Ballal, Adv. Ms. Isha Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shaurya Sahay, AoR Mr. Aman Jaiswal, Adv. Ms. Sharvi Sharma, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Pandey, Adv. Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AoR Mr. Pranjal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kashif Khan, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AoR Mr. Anando Mukherjee For State Of Mizoram, A. A. G. Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv. Mr. Utkarsh Anand, Adv. Mr. Brijender Chahar, A. S. G. Mr. Ronak Karanpuria, AoR Mr. Rohit Gautam, Adv. Mr. Amit Kuri, Adv. Mr. Kartik Chaurasia, Adv. Ms. Khushbu Sinha, Adv. Mr. Roman Khan, Adv. Mr. Samir Malik, Adv. Ms. Nilanjana Gautam, Adv. Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Sr. Adv. Mr. Avnish Dave, Adv. Mr. Kumar Prashant, AoR Mr. Parmod Kumar Vishnoi, Adv. Mr. Vijit Poonia, Adv. Ms. Mansi Joshi, Adv. Mr. Manohar Pratap, AoR Mr. Rajdeepak Rastogi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishit Agrawal, AoR Mr. Sarthak Rastogi, Adv. Mr. Devesh Yadav, Adv. Ms. Kanishka Mittal, Adv. Ms. Deepti Rathi, Adv.

