“I have ordered Environment Department as well as Irrigation and Flood Control Department officials to suggest ways of reviving it,” Mehta said.

Mehta said the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which sold the area spread over two acres adjacent to the famous Sanjay Lake for the establishment of a yoga centre way back in 1980s, has also been asked to reply on the matter.

In revenue records, this area is categorised as “johad” or water body but the DDA changed its land use to “institutional”.

A division bench of the High Court comprising Chief Justice K P Shah and Justice Sanjeev Khanna had asked Mehta to find ways to develop the said water body, which has now been completely covered with mud, in a hearing last month in the case. The case will come up for hearing on March 10.