COVID-19 grievances: Consider forming a panel, HC tells govt.
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The High Court of Karnataka on Friday recommended to the State authorities to look at organising a high-level committee comprising a retired choose of the High Court, and retired bureaucrats from completely different disciplines to handle grievances of residents because of the sudden surge in COVID-19 instances.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar informed Additional Advocate General M. Dhyan Chinnappa to hunt instruction from the federal government in organising committee in order that grievances of residents might be thought-about by the committee and folks needn’t knock on the doorways of the courts.
The Bench, listening to PIL petitions on points that had cropped up throughout the lockdown and unlock technique of 2020, additionally informed the AAG for info on the measures taken to make sure availability of enough beds in hospitals for COVID-19 sufferers, ambulance services, and so forth. When the counsel for petitioners identified that exorbitant prices are being demanded from folks for cremation within the vary of ₹30,000 to ₹40,000 and ambulances should not obtainable in enough numbers for COVID-19 sufferers, the Bench requested the federal government to answer the problems because the State is witnessing a sudden surge within the variety of COVID-19 optimistic instances not like within the first wave of the an infection.
The Bench adjourned additional listening to until April 17 asking the federal government to submit its responses to the queries.
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