‘Putting officers in jail will not bring oxygen to Delhi’, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday started listening to a plea of the Centre towards Delhi High Court’s order issuing contempt discover and looking for private look of its officers for non-compliance of the route on provide of oxygen to deal with COVID-19 sufferers within the nationwide capital.
The listening to started within the afternoon after Chief Justice NV Ramana requested the courtroom registry to position the papers on the matter earlier than a bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud.

“Putting officers in jail will not bring oxygen to city, let’s ensure lives are saved,” the apex courtroom mentioned in its observations, asking the Central authorities how a lot oxygen was allotted to the nationwide capital within the final three days.

The Centre knowledgeable the courtroom that each the state and Union governments have been “doing their best”.

In a listening to on Tuesday, the Delhi High Court on the problem of scarcity of oxygen instructed the Centre that it’d select to “dig its head like an ostrich in the sand”, however the courtroom is not going to.
Noting that individuals are dying, the HC requested the federal government: “Are you living in ivory towers?” It additional requested the Centre why contempt motion shouldn’t be initiated towards it for not complying with judicial orders on oxygen provide to the Capital