Karnataka HC takes suo moto note of Chamarajanagar deaths, favours judicial probe
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Last Updated: May 04, 2021, 03:40 PM IST
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The incident is very serious , a division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Aravind Kumar remarked after taking cognisance of two letters about the incident. The court put the Union Government and Karnataka on notice seeking an urgent response as to how they intend to fix the oxygen demand-supply gap in the face of increasing Covid-19 cases, and infected persons dying for want of oxygen.
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The court asked the counsel appearing for the Centre as to why it is not raising the cap on use of oxygen in Karnataka as the gap is said to be around 900 tonnes a day.