Lockdown In UP: Supreme Court Stays Verdict Of High Court
Lockdown in UP: no lockdown in five cities of Uttar Pradesh, Supreme Court stays verdict of High Court.
The Allahabad High Court’s directive has been stayed by the country’s high court on the lockdown from the night of April 19 in five cities, including Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow.
The Supreme Court has given a big relief to the Uttar Pradesh government by staying the Allahabad High Court verdict.
The Supreme Court, along with the immediate ban on the instructions of the Allahabad High Court, has also sought a report from the Uttar Pradesh government in two weeks of all steps taken to curb the coronavirus infection.
The Allahabad High Court had directed the lock-down in Lucknow, Kanpur city, Prayagraj, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur to see the situation worsen in five cities of Uttar Pradesh due to the rising infection of the coronavirus.
In protest, the Yogi Adityanath government of Uttar Pradesh appealed to the Supreme Court.
SG Tushar Mehta had referred for an urgent hearing from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the appeal of the Uttar Pradesh government.
On the direction of the High Court, the Government of Uttar Pradesh says that this directive of the Allahabad High Court is an encroachment in the area of the executive.
The government is trying to do better in the transition period of the coronavirus. If the government feels that there will be no talk without a lockdown, then lockdown will also happen. As it was done earlier also.
Earlier, the Yogi Adityanath government, who refused to follow the lockdown directive for five days from the night of April 19 in five cities of Uttar Pradesh, of the Allahabad High Court, on the day to day growing corona infection, reached the Supreme Court.
The Allahabad High Court, while hearing a PIL, directed the lockdown in five cities of Uttar Pradesh by April 26.
A division bench of Justice Siddharth Verma and Justice Ajit Kumar provided necessary service to the five cities of UP from the night of April 19 to April 26 in Lucknow, Kanpur Nagar, Prayagraj, Varanasi, and Gorakhpur in view of the extremely dangerous coronavirus infection.
The spokesperson of the Yogi Adityanath government conveyed the decision of the High Court to accept the government’s direct refusal to accept the directive that the government is very serious about the lockdown.
People are voluntarily closing establishments and markets everywhere. Along with this, the government has imposed a night curfew in these ten cities along with other ten places from eight o’clock in the morning to seven in the next morning.
The petition filed for adjournment of the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh from the Supreme Court today can also be heard today. This petition was filed on Monday.
