The Supreme Court has excluded structures up to 17.5 metres tall with stilts from Delhi Fire Regulations.

The petition first approached the HC in 2014 to ease rules. On behalf of Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh, Senior advocate Nidhesh Gupta argued that Rule 27(2) of the Delhi Fire Service Rules, 2010, didn’t match up with the 2013 ordinance to the Master Plan for Delhi (MPD)-2021, which expanded the height limit for apartment complexes with stilt park and ride to 17 5 metres from the previous limit of 15 metres.

The Court In this Case spared structures up to 17.5 meters in height with stilts from Rule 27 of the Delhi Fire Service Rules 2010, which also classifies any construction above 15 metres as high-rise, and granted the Supreme Court Bar Association president Vikas Singh’s petition, whose been waging war a court dispute over the last eight years to just get permission for his residence, which would be about 16 metres tall.

The 15-metre restriction should pertain to structures sans stilts, but structures with stilts might be as tall as 17.5 metres, as well as any project taller than 17.5 metres would be classified as a high-rise, rules put the court of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice V Ramasubramanian.

Singh originally petitioned the Delhi High Court in March 2014, requesting that it compel the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) to accept the amended building plan for his residence in Defence Colony. The building had surpassed the extracting the maximum mark and was now nearly 16 metres tall.

The HC, nevertheless, was not persuaded and dismissed his appeal, saying in January 2016 that “we are from the perspective that if the petitioner fulfils the SDMC that the structure of his residence is any way by the recognised proposals and the petitioner had already taken sufficient measures for fire safety and/or ends up taking that further approaches to enhance his residence fire safety, the building doesn’t continue to stay unapproved.”