High Courts Must Avoid Passing Impossible Covid Orders: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court today said that the Allahabad High Court's "Ram bharose" comment on UP's medical system must be treated as advice.

The Supreme Court today said that given their national and transnational ramification, the various High Courts dealing with Covid-related cases must avoid passing orders that are impossible to implement. It stayed an Allahabad High Court order in a suo motu case in which the court said that, within four months, all nursing home beds in Uttar Pradesh must have oxygen facility. The High Court had also directed the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that within a month every UP village had two ambulances with ICU facility. "High Courts must pass orders that are possible to implement," a Supreme Court bench of Justices Vineet Saran and BR Gavai said today. The top court, however, refused to cancel the High Court's "Ram Bharose" comment, made on Monday, saying such observations need to be treated as advice.