The Delhi High Court on Monday granted liberty to the petitioner to make representation to the Government while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed seeking relief regarding permanent redressal of oxygen crisis due to Covid-19 pandemic that continues to report more than 3 lakh cases every day.
Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal had been petitioned by Delhi Police to grant them 5-day custody but the court allowed only 3 days after police maintained that they needed to interrogate him over the oxygen concentrators seized from his restaurants in Khan Market.
The Delhi Police on Monday submitted before the Delhi High Court that it should not entertain petition under Article 226 of the Constitution while opposing the plea filed by Matrix Cellular seeking the release of 419 oxygen Concentrators seized by Police from its premises.
The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli on Wednesday issued notice to all people held for black marketing Covid-related life saving drugs and equipment, including oxygen concentrators and such.
The Delhi High Court bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli on Wednesday made it clear that the Covid aid that has come in from private parties and from abroad should be distributed on time and judiciously. The bench also asked for a compliance report from the Centre on May 22.
The police has come to know that the accused had sought a consultant from China through a private company. Nearly 150 of these contractors had sold by the employees of Navneet Kalra.
Owing to the increase in numbers of COVID patients, there were several persons in dire need of the oxygen concentrators and as a result hundreds of people would que outside the office of the Petitioner, sometimes arriving in ambulances to collect oxygen concentrators