List steps taken against e-traders supplying non-essentials: Bombay HC orders Maharashtra govt
A Bombay High Court bench of Justices Ramesh Dhanuka and Madhav Jamdar on Tuesday ordered the Maharashtra government to spell out the steps taken to initiate action against e-commerce traders supplying non-essential materials in violation of lockdown restrictions. The bench has further sought to know from the state the steps it proposes to take to formulate a package for retailers, whose businesses are hit due to the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
The judges were hearing a petition filed by Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association (FRTWA), highlighting the huge losses incurred by retailers owing to the pandemic and the lockdown restrictions.
Court was hearing a petition filed by the Federation of Retail Traders Welfare Association, which argued that various e-commerce dealers were supplying non-essential goods and services despite the governments order against it.
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The Narendra Modi government isn’t the only one responsible for taking bizarre and capricious decisions while framing regulations to deal with a snowballing second Covid-19 wave.
The Maharashtra regime, which decided on Thursday to extend its lockdown restrictions till 7am on June 1, has come up with its own ham-handed response that now threatens to disrupt the movement of goods and supplies to the state which prides itself on its contribution to 25 per cent of the country’s GDP.
On Thursday, the Uddhav Thackeray-led state government said that truckers ferrying goods from anywhere
outside the state would have to restrict the number of people in the vehicle to just two and they would have to carry Covid negative test reports issued no more than 48 hours before the vehicle rolled across the border.
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MUMBAI: The stringent ‘Break the Chain’ restrictions for Covid-19 in the state were extended till 7am on June 1 with certain modifications, a day after the Maharashtra cabinet made a suggestion to the effect.
According to the new order issued on Thursday, anyone entering the state from any part of the country by any mode of transport must carry a negative RT-PCR report. The test must be conducted a maximum of 48 hours before entry into the state. The BMC said air passengers will not be allowed to board flights to Mumbai without negative RT-PCR tests effective May 15, 7 am. In April, the state had put curbs on travellers from six states declared as places of “sensitive origin”. Now, the rule has been extended to all states.