UP Panchayat Polls- Revisit The Policy To Compensate Family Only If COVID Death Takes Place Within 30 Days: Allahabad HC To UP Govt

The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh Government to revisit its policy to provide compensation to the family of UP Panchayat polls workers who died within 30 days of contracting COVID while on duty.The Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Vikram D. Chauhan was of the prima facie view that the restriction of death within 30 days of COVID, contained in Clause 12 of...