Supply 490 MT allocated oxygen to Delhi or face contempt: HC warns Centre

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Saturday directed the Centre to supply 490 metric tonnes of allocated oxygen to Delhi during the day itself or face contempt action, taking note of eight deaths at Batra Hospital in the city due to lack of oxygen supply.

"Much water has gone above head. Now we mean business. Enough is enough," a bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli asserted while declining the Centre's request to defer the order till Monday or for half-an-hour.

Water has gone above the head. You have to arrange everything now. You have made the oxygen allocation. You have to fulfil it. Eight lives have lost. We can’t shut our eyes to it: Delhi HC to Centre.

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— Arvind Gunasekar (@arvindgunasekar) May 1, 2021

"Do you mean we will shut our eyes to people dying in Delhi?" the bench asked when the Centre's counsel said the oxygen crisis is before the Supreme Court also which will make its order public on Saturday.

BIG BREAKING: Delhi HC says it may consider initiating contempt proceedings against the Centre if 480 MT of oxygen is not supplied to Delhi today. HC says “Now the water has gone above our head. Now we mean business. Enough is enough!”

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The bench said the Centre has made an allocation of 490 metric tonnes of oxygen to Delhi and "you fulfill it".

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