Port Blair, June 22: Today, Double Bench of High Court at Calcutta comprising Chief Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice Arijit Banerjee while disposing the application filed apparently on behalf of Bar Association, A&N Islands to recall its Order dated 18.06.2020 observed that “we are not inclined to recall the order dated 18th June, 2020” and that “the application taken out for recalling of the order dated 18th June, 2020 is not entertained”.
On 18.06.2020, the Hon’ble High Court while disposing the matter in CAN 3149 of 2020 in WP No. 5324(W) of 2020 had observed that “we see no reason to keep the interlocutory application pending”, while acknowledging that the Central Government guidelines regarding the quarantining of passengers arriving in the islands issued by the Home Ministry have been framed and the same are being scrupulously followed by UT Administration.
Earlier in similar matters challenging the measures taken by the A&N Administration, the Hon’ble Court was fully satisfied with series of action taken by the Administration in the maintenance of supplies of essential commodities and appreciated the efforts of the A&N Administration in preventing contagion of COVID-19 in Children Protection Homes in the islands and directed that the procedure followed by the Child Care Institutions in Andaman and Nicobar Islands shall be replicated at all such Homes in West Bengal vide its Orders dated 08.04.2020 and 21.04.2020.
Hon’ble Court had commended the multipronged efforts made by the Andaman and Nicobar Administration to control the crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 while disposing of the Writ Petition No. 5324(W) of 2020 in its Order dated 15.05.2020. Source: IP&T.
