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SC Refuses to Entertain Plea for National Policy for Compensation to Covid-19 Victims [READ ORDER]

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On Monday, the Apex Court refused to entertain a petition seeking formulation of a national policy for uniform compensation for families of those who have died due to the COVID-19. A bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan & Justice R S Reddy dismissed the plea saying that every state has a different policy & gives compensation as per its financial power.

Petitioner Counsel argued that, the Delhi Govt has given Rs 1 crore as compensation, while some states are giving Rs 1 lakh, therefore there is no uniform policy on compensation.

The petitioner, has also sought a direction to the Centre as well as State Govts to formulate an appropriate “compensation plan” to provide ex-gratia monetary compensation to the kin of essential workers & healthcare workers who have succumbed to COVID-19. It has urged the court to seek a status report from state governments on the total number of COVID-19-related causalities & measures taken by authorities for compensating for loss of life due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The plea alleged that a majority of the country’s population belong to financially weaker sections, wherein only one person is an earning member & others in the family are solely depend on that income for their sustenance. “The said citizens are also the tax payers of our country. In such a structure, whereby the death rate is only increasing at an alarming rate per day, it is imperative for the state to formulate appropriate guidelines, on compassionate grounds, for ex-gratia compensation to families of the COVID-19 casualties, especially for frontline workers such as doctors, nurses, paramedical staff etc., solely with the purpose of aiding the families for their basic survival & sustenance during this pandemic,” the plea said. 

Pertinently, “the death of an Indian citizen not only impacts his/her own personal life”, but it affects the lives of all the members of the family who were dependent “on the sole source of income”, it said. “In the event of a death of such a family member & while regarding the huge unemployment which COVID-19 has encompassed globally, the dependents are with no finances for survival, the plea,” filed by Prakash said.

It alleged that the death rate due to Coronavirus is exponentially increasing with each passing hour, especially in cases of frontline workers such as Police officials, Doctors, Paramedical staff, Govt employees, Journalists, thereby rendering the family of the deceased in an extremely vulnerable position.

It said that “Till date, COVID-19 has no cure/vaccine & has been declared as a notified ‘disaster’, thus, it is the duty of the State, on compassionate grounds, to provide relief to its citizens by adequately compensating the kin of the deceased in order to financially assist the families thereof, who are in an extremely vulnerable & helpless position, having suffered due to the outbreak of this deadly virus”.

Ultimately the Writ petition was dismissed as Withdrawn

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