On the submission that the time taken in placing a call at the Emergency Helpline No 112 through the IVR takes five seconds if the caller is serious and presses ‘8’, the High Court said that this time taken cannot be termed "unreasonable".
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation seeking removal of Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and other computer-generated voice prefixed in Emergency Helpline No. 112.A division.
Delhi Law Minister Atishi has declared as “invalid” an order issued by the principal secretary (Law) appointing another lawyer as standing counsel to represent Delhi Government before the Delhi High Court on interim basis instead of standing counsel (civil) Santosh Kumar Tripathi. The
The principal secretary (Law) on the instructions of LG, had also asked Tripathi not to appear on behalf of Delhi government before any court of law till further orders and till the decision is taken in the matter by the competent authority.
According to the minister, state government hospitals are staring at a situation where even new hospitals don’t have sufficient staff to make them operational.