Amidst an unprecedented rise in Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the High Court announced that it will only hear the urgent matters filed in the year 2021 from Monday.
According to an official statement, it said that " no routine or non-urgent matters will be taken up for hearing for now".
According to an order it said," In continuation of Court office order No 223/RG/DHC/2021 dated 8.4.2021, keeping in view the alarming rise in the Covid-19 cases in the NCT of Delhi, It has been ordered that all the Hon'ble Benches of this Court shall, with effect from 19.04.2021, take up extremely urgent matters filed in the year 2021 only" . The order also said that "in case of any extreme urgency, the request in the pending matters may be made on the already notified designated link.
Meanwhile, a one-week lockdown has been imposed in the National Capital in view of rise in Covid-19 cases. Delhi recorded 25,000 new Covid-19 cases in the Capital.
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