New Delhi, Oct 08: Supreme Court today declined to issue a direction to the Union government to notify Delhi Rent Control Act which was passed by Parliament and given assent to by the President in 1995. A bench comprising Justice R C Lahoti and Justice Ashok Bhan dismissed the petition filed by common cause (NGO) seeking a direction to the government for notification of the act to assuage the hardships of lakhs of tenants in the national capital. Bureau Report