The Allahabad High
Court has called the compensation of the families of officers and employees
killed due to corona in duty in the UP Panchayat elections less. The High Court
said on Wednesday that the compensation amount should be at least Rs 1 crore. A
bench of Justices Siddharth Verma and Justice Ajit Kumar said this during the
hearing on the PIL filed in connection with the outbreak of epidemic in Uttar
Pradesh and the quarantine centers. The matter will be next heard on May 17,2021.
The Uttar Pradesh
government had announced a compensation of Rs 30 lakh to the kin of those killed
from Corona during election duty. To this, the High Court said, “We hope that
the State Election Commission and the government will reconsider the
compensation amount and will tell us about it at the next hearing.”
The High Court also
said that the state government and the Election Commission deliberately forced
the employees to do duty without RT-PCR investigation. In such a situation, the
compensation of the life of the person living the family should be at least 1
crore.
Public interest
litigation (PIL) is a medium through which public issues involving minority or
disadvantaged groups or individuals are raised through litigation or legal
proceedings. In simple words, Public Interest Litigation (PIL) is the result of
judicial activism through which an individual or a non-governmental
organization or civic group can seek justice in court on issues involving large
public interest.
Any Indian citizen can
file a PIL, the only condition being that it should be filed in the public
interest rather than private interest. If an issue is of very public
importance, many times the court also takes suo motu cognizance in such a case
and appoints a lawyer to handle such a case. Public interest petitions can be
filed only in the Supreme Court or the High Court. The court also imposes a
penalty for filing a PIL for the wrong reasons.
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Dr. Deepak Miglani
Email id:- legalbuddy@gmail.com
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