Terming the Delhi government's June 7 order as 'Draconian', an advocate and social activist has now sent a legal notice to the Arvind Kejriwal-led government wherein he has asked the latter to withdraw its order which bars non-residents of Delhi to be hospitalised in state government-run hospitals in the national capital. The petition also alleged that these powers have adopted a "Pick and Choose policy" for the want of "cheap publicity". In his legal notice, Bansal has stated that within the national capital there are lakhs of homeless persons with mental illnesses who don’t have any kind of identity card and are instead languishing on the roads. Bansal stated in his legal notice that by way of this order, the Health department has, further, illegally classified patients into two categories: (a) Delhi patients and (b) Non-Delhi patients, thereby excluding the latter group from availing the benefit of treatment from certain medical facilities in Delhi. Thereby, the petitioner, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, has asked the Delhi Government to withdraw the aforementioned order on an immediate basis.

Source: dna June 08, 2020 08:03 UTC