COVID19: Oxygen Supply To Delhi: Supreme Court Hearing- Live-Updates

Bench says it will dictate the order and upload it in sometime.

Bench rises.

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Bench will start dictating the order in sometime.

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Solicitor General mentions before the bench an SLP filed against the Karnataka High Court order directing increase of oxygen allocation for Karnataka.

Justice Chandrachud says mention before the CJI

There is a necessity to forecast and create buffer stocks : Meenakshi Arora submits.

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Amicus curiae Sr Adv Meenakshi Arora is addressing court now.

She says with the help of experts, epidemologists, there can be a reasonable projection.

Justice Shah to SG: But your own affidavit says it 590MT and not 490?

SG: We increased it by 100 because the Court said so.

Solicitor General says 490 MT oxygen will suffice for Delhi.

SG- My perspective is that need is not because of shortage of supply but there is a systemic failure.

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Jaideep Gupta, amicus : To my mind, it does not make sense as SG says that 700 figure is incorrect. If it was incorrect and 490 was required then there would be no shortage. But there is a shortage.

Jaideep Gupta, amicus curiae : The moment an order is passed on Audit, there will be a debate that the 700MT order is gone. 

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Amicus curiae Jaideep Gupta tells Supreme Court that the daily allocation of oxygen for Delhi should remain as 700 MT till a new formula for computing oxygen allocations is evolved.

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