With varying orders being passed on\u00a0COVID-19 related matters by different benches of the Kerala High Court, a single judge on Wednesday said it tarnishes image of the judiciary and asked the state government to move a request for allocating all such cases before one particular bench to avoid issuance of conflicting decisions.<\/p>\n
Justice P B Suresh Kumar asked the state government to move the request before Chief Justice S Manikumar, and wondered what would people think about the high court and the judiciary if such contrary orders are passed on the same or similar issue.<\/p>\n
Citing one such example of conflicting orders, Justice Kumar said while one judge of the high court had allowed engineering students’ plea to stop offline exams, in view of COVID-19, another judge dismissed a petition of medical students against conduct of offline exams.<\/p>\n
The judge also said even the government lawyers, who are aware of filing of all such cases, do not inform the concerned bench that a related matter is pending before another bench or judge.<\/p>\n
He asked the state government to immediately request the Chief Justice to allocate all matters related to COVID-19 to one bench or judge “to avoid passing of conflicting orders”.<\/p>\n
The observations by the judge came during hearing of a plea by an association of private hospitals here seeking directions preventing the suppliers of oxygen to the hospitals in the state from increasing the price of oxygen during the pandemic.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, the court was informed by the state government that the transportation costs of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) have been fixed.<\/p>\n
The court on the last date of hearing had said that the prices of LMO and oxygen inhalation (medicinal gas) in a cylinder can be controlled effectively only if the transportation cost was fixed.<\/p>\n
It had directed the state government to expedite the process initiated for fixing the transportation cost of LMO and oxygen inhalation (medicinal gas) in a cylinder.<\/p>\n
Source : PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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