The Delhi High Court has constituted a Committee for conducting a survey and devising a joint policy decision for removal of illegal encroachments and rehabilitation of those who may be required to be uprooted and displaced in an around city's Tughlaqabad Fort. The Court further directed that all other authorities of Delhi Government as also the Government of India shall fully cooperate with the Committee and whenever required, shall provide the relevant material. The Court said that Tughlakabad Fort is a protected monument within the meaning of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958. “We have already observed above the need to make the entire area encroachment free, if we have to follow the legislative mandate expressed in the 1958 Act to preserve the monument. Title: S.N.BHARDWAJ ADVOCATE v. ARCHCOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA & other connected mattersClick here to read order