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Relatives of patients killed by Covid will have to be paid ex gratia under a central law, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday after brushing aside the Narendra Modi government’s contention that such payouts are not mandatory. But the court declined to fix the amount at Rs 4 lakh each, which the petitioners had sought on the basis of central guidelines issued in 2015 for disaster victims’ survivors. The court asked the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to decide the size of the payment within six weeks. Advertisement At least 3.98 lakh people in the country have succumbed to Covid so far but the Centre has been stonewalling payment of ex gratia meant to tide over immediate exigencies by splitting semantic hairs, insisting that the word “shall” in a section of the Disaster Management Act should be read as “may”. The contention did not cut ice with the court.

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