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

Solicitor General has submitted that there is no dearth of oxygen in the country : Rahul Mehra to bench.

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Solicitor General has submitted that there is no dearth of oxygen in the country : Rahul Mehra to bench.

#SupremeCourt #OxygenCrisis #Delhi

Hearing resumes. 

Senior Adv Rahul Mehra continues submissions for Delhi Govt.

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Justice Chandrachud: The committee can have discussion with the industry leaders for logistics, but they need not be a part of the committee. Inputs can be drawn from them. We will now sit at 2:10 PM.

Sr. Adv. Meenakshi Arora: We have received suggestions. One of them is that industry is a major part without whom supply cannot take place. So they should be on the committee. Another suggestion was to have doctors from the private sector too.

Justice Chandrachud: Just like we didn't allow recriminations against the Centre, we won't allow the same for Delhi Government. You may have ideological differences, but that is of no concern to us.

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Mehra: Let the matter be deferred till Monday. They want to wriggle out of providing 700 MT. 

Justice Chandrachud: Rest assured that the order will not like be a witchhunt of the Delhi government.

Justice Chandrachud: We will resume after 45 minutes. You can share a plan with us then. 

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SG: If I may add - Court can consider having a large body which will not only look at allocation, but also State-wise allocation of oxygen. Smaller Committee for auditing each State can be formed. Small committee can have one officer from State, one from Centre and two doctors.

Mehra: We have hospitals with LMO plant, we have hospitals which have plant but need cylinders and then hospitals which only thrive on cylinders. GNCTD is not involved here and its a matter of professionals. Tankers are then diverted to a particular hospital.