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The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought the city governments response in a public interest litigation seeking directions to immediately release the ex-gratia amount to the families of the deceased police personnel, who died while performing field duty during Covid waves as promised by authorities...
The plea refers to a July 27, 2020 order of Divisional Commissioner (Revenue), which refers to a cabinet decision of the Delhi government passed on May 13, 2020, stating that if any person including doctor, nurse, para-medical staff, security/sanitation staff or any other government officer/official, including police, whether temporary or permanent employee or contractual in any government or private sector deployed by government of NCT of Delhi, expires by contracting the disease during discharge of his duties, his/her family shall be paid an ex-gratia of amount Rs 1 crore posthumously...
The plea refers to a tweet by CM Arvind Kejriwal on April 1, 2020, which read, If anyone loses their life while serving any #Covid-19 patient, be it sanitation workers, doctors, or nurses or any other staff, temporary or permanent, from private or government sector, their families will be given Rs 1 crore as our mark of respect for their service...
The plea further alleges that through a February 2021 reply to its RTI application the petitioners were shocked to know that out of the files of 15 families of police officials who died in covid while discharging their duties and sought the ex gratia amount, the Delhi government had rejected 12 files without assigning any reasons and remaining three are pending...
The plea claims that petitioners further found out that Amit Kumars widow has filed a petition before the high court seeking grant of this ex-gratia amount and the high court has directed the State of GNCT to not further delay the ex-gratia amount to the family of the deceased constableAmit Kumar via order dated 14-12-2022..
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