Section 404
Enclosure of waste land used for improper purposes.
The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Municipal Government of Delhi.
The Commissioner may, by notice in
writing, require the owner or part-owner, or person claiming to be the owner or part-owner of any land or
building, or the lessee or the person claiming to be the lessee of any such land which, by reason of disuse
or disputed ownership or other cause, has remained unoccupied and has become the resort of idle and
disorderly persons or of persons who have no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a
satisfactory account of themselves or is used for gaming or immoral purposes or otherwise occasions or is
likely to occasion a nuisance, to secure and enclose the same within such time as may be specified in the
notice.