Justice Vipin Sanghi

A division bench constituted to take up matters related to Covid-19 has for the last two months been industriously and on a daily basis trying to ensure that citizens are saved at any cost.

Senior Advocate Sanjoy Ghose, through an interim application, mentioned before the Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli, the IHBAS has a number of beds available at its facility.

The High-Powered Committee of the Delhi High Court met on Tuesday to discuss affirmative and effective steps to prevent a Covid-19 outbreak inside jails.

It was suggested that the government should buy the essential material, decide on a venue to set things up and then involve the Army.

The Bench is hearing a slew of petitions on the shortage of life-saving drugs, oxygen and hospital beds in the Capital.

Advocate Virag Gupta claimed that opposite party leaders and other workers are hoarding and black-marketing the medicines in Delhi.

Senior Counsel Rahul Mehra told the bencch, "Our entire projection of oxygen with reference to hospitals was through the Central government."

The other issue that came up before the Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli today was that while the entire country was striving to get hold of life-saving medicines such as Remdesivir and others.

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Bar Council of India (BCI) to find out if the owners of a hospital in Dwarka, where a few beds were available, were willing to hand it over for COVID treatment.

SG Mehta informed the court that oxygen can be produced at the Vedanta plant, which was closed in Tamil Nadu. “We can reopen it to produce medical oxygen.”