‘Approach authorities on norm violations in events attended by politicians’

The High Court of Karnataka on Friday directed litigants, who’ve complained about a number of cases of violation of COVID-19 norms of carrying masks, sustaining social distancing and public gathering involving distinguished political leaders, to submit their complaints to the grievance redressal equipment created by the State authorities.

The court docket additionally indicated that it will take severe view if the grievance redressal mechanism fail to behave correctly when the litigants earlier than the court docket submit their complaints in writing.

A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Suraj Govindaraj issued the instructions whereas listening to a PIL petition, filed by city-based Letzkit Foundation, via which the court docket is monitoring actions initiated by the State authorities and its authorities in coping with violation of COVID-19 norms.

“Let us test how effectively the grievance redressal mechanism is functioning,” the Bench orally noticed.

Instances of violation of norms throughout the inspection of Bengaluru metro undertaking by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and some different Ministers and high officers of the undertaking have been amongst cases dropped at the discover of the court docket throughout the listening to of the petition.

However, because the Government stated that it has already created a mechanism to cope with complaints about such violations, the Bench requested the litigants to first submit their complaints to the authorities involved and are available again to the Court in the event that they did not act.