The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld a rule empowering Mayor-led body to hear street vendors’ appeals. Taking up a review application, a division bench rejected a plea that questioned the legality of the notification constituting the appellate authority headed by the Mayor of the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.

The bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry held that the petitioner had failed to establish any infirmity in the constitution of the appellate authority or in the framing of Rule 9 of the Union Territory of Chandigarh Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Rules, 2015.

The petitioner had contended that the Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh, had no jurisdiction to constitute an appellate authority comprising the May

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