Chamarajanagar deaths: HC to examine plea for compensation later
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The High Court of Karnataka has stated that it might contemplate the plea for fee of compensation to members of the family of the COVID-19 sufferers who died in Chamarajanagar district, allegedly due to lack of oxygen provide, after the result of the inquiry studies is thought.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar handed the order on May 6 whereas listening to a PIL petition filed by K.M. Shreeniwasmurthy, a Chamarajanagar-based advocate. The Bench stated it might hear the plea for fee of compensation for the 23 individuals who died within the Chamarajanagar district hospital on May 2 and three after the preliminary report of inquiry, both by the IAS officer appointed by the State authorities or by the committee appointed by the Legal Services Authority, was submitted earlier than the courtroom.
On post-mortem
On the prayer of the petitioner to direct the federal government to conduct post-mortem of the individuals who’ve died of COVID-19, the Bench stated, “We do not think that at this stage, we can issue a direction to the State government to undertake autopsy of each and every person who has died of COVID-19.”
Regarding the plea for conducting an inquiry into the demise of COVID-19 sufferers, allegedly due to lack of oxygen provide, in Kalaburagi, the Bench stated it needn’t contemplate this plea at this stage. It, nevertheless, saved open the plea for fee of compensation even for the deceased in Kalaburagi.
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