JUDGMENT

RANGANATH MISRA, J.:— The petitioner who claims himself to be a small human right activist and fighting for the good causes for the general public interest filed this application under Art. 32 of the Constitution asking for a direction to the Union of India that every injured citizen brought for treatment should instantaneously be given medical aid to preserve life and thereafter the procedural criminal law should be allowed to operate in order to avoid negligent death and in the event of breach of such direction, apart from any action that may be taken for negligence appropriate compensation should be admissible. He appended to the writ petition a report entitled Law helps the injured to die published in the Hindustan Times. In the said publication it was alleged that a scooterist was knocked down by a speeding car. Seeing the profusely bleeding scooterist, a person who was on the road picked up the injured and took him to the nearest hospital. The doctors refused to attend on the injured and told the man that he should take the patient to a named different hospital located some 20 kilometres away authorised to handle medico legal cases. The samaritan carried the victim,