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The Delhi High Court today issued notice in a plea seeking direction to the GNCTD to formulate and implement an effective and concrete plan with sufficient infrastructure to provide certain facilities to the people pertaining to the dead bodies probably infected from Covid 19 like mortuary, funeral, transportation and handling facilities in this high time of urgency.

The division bench comprising Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh has sought response from the Delhi government till June 4, 2021.

The petition has been filed by Advocate Mujeeb Ur Rehman who has submitted that the people of Delhi apart from the sufferings due to the corona patients in the family, due to the lack of medical facilities and due to the lack of oxygen supply are also severely suffering due to the lack of mortuary facilities, funeral facilities and absence of dead body transportation and handling facilities, all just due to the lack of initiative of the Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi in this regard.

Rahman has thus submitted that “the people of Delhi need a dedicated facility from the Govt. to help them in handling and transporting the dead bodies infected of Covid, mortuaries for such bodies, and funeral facilities; because expecting that the general public will come out itself to do all these tasks will be a foolish thought as Covid being a highly infectious disease and high fear of being infected is keeping most of the people away from doing such social service.”

The petitioner has also prayed for a dedicated 24x7 telephone helpline number to provide services in respect of any dead body, a dedicated transportation facility in respect of any dead body and a dedicated team of trained people to handle the dead bodies.

The matter has been listed for next hearing on June 4.