The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed this order while hearing a suo motu case registered to monitor COVID-19 management in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
R. Alagumani, Counsel for the petitioner, has referred to some of the bills charged by the private hospitals, which is annexed in the typed set of papers filed along with the petition.
The two-judge bench comprising Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice M.R. Shah pronounced its judgment in the Election Commission's plea against the Madras High Court's oral observations.
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the Election Commission’s plea against the oral observations made by Madras High Court that ECI was "singularly responsible" for the Covid second wave in India and should be tried for "murder charges".
The Supreme Court will today pronounce its verdict in an appeal filed by the Election Commission against Madras High Court, for stating that the Commission was singularly responsible for the surge in Covid-19.
The Commission had filed an application in the Madras High Court against its oral observation and said that media reports of the Court’s oral comments had caused grave prejudice to it.
Just as High Courts set the pace for opposition to Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, so too has the Madras High Court established the tone and tenor for holding the government accountable for the spread of the killer pandemic through allowing stretched out election schedules and mammoth rallies.