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20 Apr, 6 tweets, 6 min read
#BombayHighCourt to hear a plea seeking Court’s intervention in the improper management of #Covid medical treatment crises in #Maharashtra.

Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni will hear the plea at 1.45 pm today.
Hearing begins.

Advocate Arshil Khan appearing for the petitioner makes his submissions.

Khan submits that private persons have been managing to get oxygen cylinders, then why can’t the govt.

#COVID #COVIDEmergency #BreakTheChain
Khan further submits that shortage of beds was something that influential people did not face, but only common people.

#COVID #COVIDEmergency #BreakTheChain
Khan tries to submit on the shortage of #remdesivirinjection

CJ: #Remedesivir is a medicine for #COVID ?

Khan: No milords but it is given to COVID patients.

CJ: It was given for Ebola.

#COVID #COVIDEmergency #BreakTheChain
CJ: And when you file a PIL, do you use political comments in them? Isn’t it filed for the poor and the needy? You being an advocate, the petitioner being an advocate has to be mindful of these things.

#COVID #COVIDEmergency #BreakTheChain
As the Union and #BMC is not represented today, the Court adjourns the hearing to Thursday. Directs the Respondents to come prepared with instructions.

#COVID #COVIDEmergency #BreakTheChain

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21 Apr
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Delhi High Court will shortly hear a petition concerning #COVID19 situation in the national capital.

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"Industries can wait. Human lives once lost are lost", Court said.
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#COVID19 #DelhiCOVIDEmergency
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#CourtroomExchange in #MadrasHighCourt while passing orders in PIL against river Amaravati pollution

CJ Sanjib Banerjee: This is not for you and me, it is for your children ... air they will not be able to breathe, the water they will not be able to touch...

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