The court said that it is not less than genocide. The court made the observation based on a notice put out by sun Hospital which asked family members of Covid-19 patients to be admitted at the hospital to shift them to some other facility due to shortage of the gas. The FIR mentioned that the notice “created fear and panic among the patients’ families.” The lucknow district administration however alleged that it has found eight jumbo cylinders and two B-type cylinders and concentrators in the hospital.