The contempt petition has been filed by Advocate Arpit Bhargava seeking directions taking coercive steps under Contempt of Court Act against the contemnors for willful disobedience of the orders of this Hon’ble Court and for not complying with orders.
A two-judge bench of Justices Hima Kohli & Subramonium Prasad has asked Delhi Government to increase testing in those areas where number of cases increasing.
The Delhi Government has informed the Delhi High Court that “Private Unaided Schools”, being “charitable institutions”, cannot indulge in “profiteering”
The Delhi government last month ordered all private laboratories to reduce the price of RT-PCR tests in the national capital to Rs 800 from Rs 2,400. The Court will hear the matter next on Feb 25.
The Court passed the directions and suggestions while it was hearing the plea filed by Rakesh Malhotra seeking increase in the COVID-19 testing numbers in the national capital and getting speedy results
The petition has been filed by Adv Pankaj Mehta who submitted that cause of action arouse when he saw that used swabs were being thrown out in public and tests were being carried out over a pile of used swabs for COVID-19 testing at the office of the District Magistrate, South East Delhi in Lajpat Nagar.
The Delhi High Court today agreed to hear, on December 1, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari’s plea challenging the summons issued against him in a criminal defamation case filed by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
The Central Government in an affidavit filed before the Supreme Court blamed the Delhi Government for not taking proper steps to contain the spread of COVID 19 in Delhi.