AAP govt order on 100-bed facility for judges in five star hotel very misleading, says Delhi HC
FirstpostThe Delhi HC directed the AAP government to ’take corrective steps immediately’ to withdraw the order or else the court would quash it New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday said it has not made any request for creating COVID-19 facilities for its judges, staff and their families in a five-star hotel and an SDM’s order saying so was “very misleading”. Taking suo motu cognisance of the news reports which said that 100 rooms of Ashoka Hotel in the national capital have been converted into a COVID health facility for judges of Delhi High Court on its request, a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said, “No communication has been made to anyone in this regard”. The high court has not made any such request for setting up beds in any such five-star hotel,” the bench said and added that the order passed by the sub-divisional magistrate was wrong as the state cannot create a facility exclusively for a class. Therefore, this order is wrong,” the court added and directed the Delhi government to “take corrective steps immediately” and “withdraw the order”, failing which the court shall quash it….