Delhi High Court slams Centre over delay in oxygen supply to the nationwide capital.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday got here down exhausting on Centre over oxygen supply to the nationwide capital. The court docket requested why contempt motion shouldn’t betaken for non-compliance of its order on May 1 and the Supreme Court’s order.
“It has been brought to our notice that Delhi has not received 700MT oxygen inspite of Supreme court order. Even earlier quantity of 490MT was not even delivered,” the Delhi High Court famous.
Pointing that the Supreme Court was assured by SG Tushar Mehta that Delhi won’t undergo, the excessive court docket stated that this assurance has not been fulfilled as “small and large nursing homes and individuals are running to us”.
“We reject the submission that Delhi govt is not entitled to receive 700 MT per day in light of existing infrastructure. It pains us that the aspect of supply of oxygen should be viewed in the way is done by centre. The situation has come to this that hospitals have had to reduce the number of beds,” the court docket stated.
The excessive court docket has directed central authorities officers to stay current earlier than it on Wednesday when the listening to within the matter will proceed.
The Delhi High Court on May 1 had directed the Centre to supply 490 metric tonne of allotted oxygen to the nationwide capital or face contempt.
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The court docket took be aware of eight deaths in Batra Hospital due to lack of oxygen supply and advised the federal government ‘sufficient is sufficient’.
“Do you mean we will shut our eyes to the people dying in Delhi,” it requested the Centre. “We mean business. Water has gone above the head,” the court docket stated and declined to defer its order.
The court docket stated the federal government had made an allocation of oxygen to Delhi and may fulfill it.
