“Enough is enough. If you can’t do it, tell us, we will ask the Central govt to take over. People are dying!” said the Court
The Delhi High Court today expressed great displeasure at the AAP-led government about the black marketing of oxygen cylinders and crucial medicines for treating COVID-19 patients that are going on in the city. The Court called this “a mess that you (Delhi govt) have been unable to resolve,” and asked the state government to “set your house in order”
“Enough is enough. If you can’t do it, tell us, we will ask the Central govt to take over. People are dying!” said the Court as per LiveLaw.
A bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rekha Palli made these remarks after the submissions by one of the suppliers namely Seth Air on its failure to supply oxygen to Maharaja Agrasen Hospital. After noticing that the Delhi Government didn’t have an answer regarding oxygen supply. The HC pulled up the GNCTD by remaking thus: “Again we are seeing you are only doing distribution of lollipops. This man is saying he has 20 tonnes but doesn’t know who to distribute to! And you say you don’t have oxygen.”
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The Delhi High Court also took suo-moto cognizance of the order passed by the Chanakyapuri sub-divisional magistrate Geeta Grover on Monday giving the nod to convert 100 rooms of Ashoka Hotel into a COVID-care facility for judges of Delhi High Court, judicial officers, and their family members.
The HC categorically denied having made a request for such a facility and said that it is “unthinkable that as an institution we would demand preferential treatment”
“Can we as an institution say that create a special facility for us? Will this not be blatantly discriminatory that people can’t get treatment and there is a facility in five-star hotel for us?”
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It further thrashed the Delhi government for passing meaningless orders. “You are passing orders left, right, and center without meaning to do anything about it.. we have not even asked for it. That hospital has no manpower, no equipment, no ventilator, no medicines.”
Meanwhile, Delhi recorded 24149 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of over 30% in the last 24 hours.
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