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(COVID19 notice outside homes)

Justice Ashok Bhushan led bench of the Supreme Court to hear a plea against the practice of putting up COVID19 positive posters outsides the homes of people who are found to be positive & in isolation.

#COVID19
#SupremeCourt
#covidpositive
Justice Bhushan: have you served a copy to Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta?

Adv Puneet Taneja: yes we have served SG Mehta
Adv Chinmoy Pradip Sharma appears for the petitoner.

SC bench awaits the presence of SG Tushar Mehta.
Office of SG : We have recieved the plea late night. Please give us time, we have forwarded this to the concerned department

SC: We are granting two weeks time to centre to file an affidavit.

Justice MR Shah: for everything we cannot pass orders.

#SupremeCourt
Supreme Court seeks response from Centre in plea against "primitive, 18th-century practice" of affixing posters outside COVID-19 patients' homes

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