conduct and monitor the sealing drive the committee comprised former election commission adviser k j rao environment pollution control authority chairman bhure lal and maj gen som jhingan the court had also directed sealing of those residential premises which were used for commercial purposesthe sealing drive went on till january 2012 when the court asked the committee not to proceed further as the government had brought in force master plan 2021 for regularising some of the illegal constructions but the apex court in december last year revived the committee and directed it to resume sealing saying the authorities were protecting the vested interests of those with little or no respect for the rule of law and also stayed the amendment in master plan 2021 which allowed mixed land use