Got political clearance to travel abroad after filing plea: Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi to HC
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Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that she has been given political clearance by the Center for her trip to Brisbane for a programme. Justice Subramonium Prasad was told by the lawyer for Oberoi that the mayor got political clearance on Tuesday after filing the petition.
However, this was contested by the Centre’s counsel, who submitted that the clearance was given before the petition was filed.
“I got permission yesterday after filing the petition. I mentioned the matter before the chief justice’s court at 12 pm and got political clearance after that, the court can record my statement,” Oberoi’s lawyer submitted on his behalf .
The judge disposed of the plea, noting that the petitioner’s grievance is no longer alive.
The matter was mentioned for urgent hearing by the mayor’s lawyer on Tuesday and the chief justice’s court agreed to list it on Wednesday.
Oberoi sought permission to travel abroad to attend the 2023 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayor’s Forum in Brisbane City scheduled to take place between October 11 and 13. On September 15, the Center gave political clearance to Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai to travel to New York from September 15 to 21 to attend the Columbia India Energy Dialogue after the high court’s intervention. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta informed the high court that political clearance was granted for Rai’s travel in the peculiar facts and circumstances of the case but it should not be made a precedent and the order should be limited to this case only.
A separate petition by the city government’s Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot challenging the provision, which requires state government ministers including the chief minister to seek political clearance from the Center for foreign trips, is currently pending in the high court.
The petition was filed last year in the backdrop of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal being denied permission for his visit to Singapore for the 8th World Cities’ Summit from July 31 to August 7, 2022.
Gahlot’s petition sought the issuance of guidelines for the implementation of certain office memoranda issued by the cabinet secretariat empowering the Center to grant or deny permission to state government ministers for foreign visits to their official capacity.
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