NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed displeasure over the Centre going ahead with the Central Vista project despite the matter being in court and judgment reserved on pleas seeking scrapping of the plan. The court though allowed the foundation-laying programme after the government assured that no construction will be carried out without the court’s approval. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna, which had on November 5 reserved its verdict on the project, took suo motu cognisance of reports that construction will start after PM Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone for the new Parliament building on December 10. But Solicitor General Tushar Mehta assured that no construction work would start till the matter is adjudicated by the court. "This matter was listed suo motu in view of certain developments. After interacting with the solicitor general and when the concern of the court was expressed, on instructions, the solicitor general stated that there will be no construction activity of any nature on the concerned site(s) nor demolition of any structure will be done, including further trans-location of tree(s) will be kept in abeyance, until the pronouncement of judgement in all these cases. We take that statement on record. In view of the above, we clarify that the authorities would be free to continue with procedural processes without altering the status of the site(s) in question in any manner, including to continue with the scheduled programme of foundation stone-laying on December 10," the bench said.