$~118 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI # CNR No. DLHC010397692026 + W.P.(C) 12344/2026 ANJUMAN GHULAM E MUSTAFA THROUGH ITS PRESIDENT TILAT AHMED .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Pawan Kumar, Advocate versus COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, DELHI POLICE AND ORS. .....Respondents Through: Mr. Ripudaman Bhardwaj, CGSC with Mr. Rudra Paliwal, G.P., Mr. Kushagra Kumar and Mr. Rajiv Kapoor, Advocates for R-1 and R-2 CORAM: HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE SWARANA KANTA SHARMA O R D E R % 24.08.2026 CM APPL. 57258/2026 (exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. 2. Application stands disposed of. W.P.(C) 12344/2026 3. By way of the instant petition, the petitioner seeks following reliefs: “A. Issue a writ of Mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction directing Respondent Nos. I to 3 and/or the competent senior police authority to forthwith consider and decide the Petitioner's application dated 30.07.2026, submitted/received on 31.07.2026, seeking permission to conduct a peaceful religious procession on 26.08.2026 on the occasion ofMilad-un-Nabi; This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 29/08/2026 at 16:00:31 B. Direct the Respondents to take a reasoned and speaking decision on the Petitioner's application well before 26.08.2026 and preferably within 48 hours of the order of this Hon'ble Court, so that the Petitioner has an effective opportunity to avail such remedy as may be available in law; C. While considering the Petitioner's application, this Hon'ble Court may be pleased to direct the Respondents to take into consideration the fact that the procession has been conducted peacefully for the last 12-15 years, and further to consider the order dated 02.09.2025 passed by this Hon'ble Court in W.P.(C) No. 13452/2025, the peaceful conduct of the Petitioner's procession in the year 2025, and the police arrangements made on that occasion, and accordingly pass appropriate orders permitting the procession to be conducted peacefully, subject to such reasonable conditions as may be deemed appropriate. D. Restrain the Respondents from defeating the Petitioner's application by keeping the same pending until the eve of the proposed procession or by communicating a decision at such a late stage that the Petitioner is deprived of an effective legal remedy...” 4. Issue notice. The learned counsel appearing on advance notice on behalf of respondent no. 1 and 2 accepts notice. 5. No one appeared on behalf of remaining respondents, when the matter was taken up for hearing. 6. The petitioner herein had filed an application seeking permission to take out a peaceful religious procession on 26.08.2026 on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi, for which it has submitted an application before the Police, and the same is pending, since 30.07.2026. 7. After hearing learned counsels appearing on behalf of the parties and in view of the issue involved in the instant petition, this Court finds it appropriate to direct that the present petition filed before this Court be treated as a representation on behalf of the petitioner and an application dated 30.07.2026 filed by the petitioner before the Delhi Police, be decided by tomorrow i.e. 25.08.2026, under intimation to the petitioner herein. This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 29/08/2026 at 16:00:31 8. In above terms, the present petition stands disposed of. 9. In case of any further grievance, the petitioner will be at liberty to approach this Court, by filing fresh writ petition. 10. The order be uploaded on the website forthwith. DR. SWARANA KANTA SHARMA, J AUGUST 24, 2026/ns vs This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 29/08/2026 at 16:00:31