In Delhi’s GTB Hospital, an acute shortage was reported by Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendra Jain with the stock only lasting a few hours. At 1:30 am on April 21, an oxygen tanker from INOX reached the hospital and saved the lives of around 500 critical COVID-19 patients.
Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued a contempt notice to the country’s largest medical oxygen manufacturer, Inox, citing non-compliance with an order it had issued on April 19, wherein it had asked the company to honour its contract to supply 140 MT of oxygen to Delhi, LiveLaw reported
Delhi High Court issues contempt notice to M/s INOX for not complying the earlier order to supply 140 MT of Oxygen. Delhi Govt counsel Rahul Mehra @TheRahulMehra told the court that reason for non-compliance is possible law and order situation in UP. pic.twitter.com/3iDnxGa6uU
— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) April 21, 2021
A division bench comprising Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli heard Senior Advocate Rahul Mehra’s submissions, who was representing the Delhi Government, where he brought to light the violation of the contract by M/s Inox with regards to oxygen supply to Delhi. He added that Delhi was facing a grave dearth of medical oxygen, and the requirement was 700 MT per day. Following this, the Court issued the notice and has asked the owner of Inox to be present during the next hearing on April 22.
Senior Advocate Mehra also told the bench that the reason for the non-compliance by INOX is stated to be the possible law and order situation that may be created, in case Inox were to transport the Oxygen from Uttar Pradesh (the company’s manufacturing unit) to Delhi. Therefore, the bench has also asked the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh to remain present during the next hearing date.
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Meanwhile, in Delhi’s GTB Hospital, an acute shortage was reported by Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendra Jain with the stock only lasting a few hours. At 1:30 am on April 21, an oxygen tanker from INOX reached the hospital and saved the lives of around 500 critical COVID-19 patients. On April 20, Delhi recorded the highest single-day spike in COVID-19 cases adding 28,395 cases. Though the state had sought 700 metric tonnes of oxygen per day from the Centre, it was allocated only 300 metric tonnes.
CM Arvind Kejriwal, in a tweet yesterday evening, had reiterated the oxygen crisis and requested the Centre to step in.
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