The petition filed by Pratyush Prasanna, practising Advocate said, “public interest litigation has arisen out of health emergency arising due to overwhelmed crematoriums and untimely burial/cremations of people of Delhi who have succumbed to death due to Covid-19.”
The Division Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, on April 27, had asked the Delhi government to collect the information of the total deaths due to shortage of oxygen in the hospitals across the national capital.
The Petitioners said that the Respondents have completely forgotten that we are in midst of a worldwide pandemic where post apocalyptic fiction has occupied the role of current affairs.
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to frame a scheme incorporating a structured response for the ‘home-based worker’, ‘self-employed worker’ and ‘unorganised worker’, as defined under The Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act, 2008, within two weeks.
The government’s failure to anticipate the nationwide demand for oxygen and the aforesaid notification that is just limited to the man of means is abhorrent at par when the entire world is witnessing the ongoing crisis of this Country.
The counsel for the petitioner Natasha Narwal even raised a fair doubt over the fact that how the jails been such a confined area did not sufficiently vaccinate the inmates.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice D. N. Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh passed this order while hearing a PIL filed by Shivleen Pasricha, through Advocate Amresh Anand.