The Supreme Court Friday, 5 April stayed the Delhi High Court order asking the Associated Journals Ltd (AJL) to vacate the National Herald House building in New Delhi.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi also issued notice to the Centre's Land and Development Office (L&DO) on the plea of AJL, publisher of the National Herald.
Earlier AJL had moved the apex court against the high court order dismissing its plea to restrain the Centre from taking any "coercive steps" to vacate its premises at Herald House in ITO area in the heart of the national capital.
The AJL on 11 March had filed the appeal against the Delhi High Court order dismissing its plea to restrain the Centre from taking any "coercive steps" to vacate its premises at Herald House, situated in the ITO area in the heart of the national capital.
The AJL has also urged the apex court to set aside the Centre's 30 October 2018 order ending its 56-year-old lease and asking it to vacate the premises on the grounds that no printing or publishing activity was going on and the building was being used only for commercial purposes.
The high court had on 28 February dismissed the plea of AJL challenging the Centre's order to vacate its premises, and had said there has been "misuse" of lease conditions.
Terming the eviction proceedings before the single-judge bench and double-judge bench in High Court as biased and malafide, the AJL in its appeal said that its publication espouses the ideology of the Congress party, which is presently the largest opposition party in the country.
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