VIPIN SANGHI, REKHA PALLI, TALWANT SINGH
Court on its own motion – Appellant
Versus
State (Govt. of NCT of Delhi) – Respondent
ORDER
1. Proceedings of the matter have been conducted through Video Conferencing.
2. Initially, this matter was placed before the Full Bench by Honourable the Chief Justice in the light of the order dated 19.04.2021, passed by the Division Bench in the present Writ Petition.The order dated 19.04.2021 of Division Bench reads as follows:
"In view of the alarming resurgence of Covid-19, the functioning of this Court is restricted only to extremely urgent matters vide Office Order No.1/R/RG/DHC/2021 dated 18.04.2021 with effect from 19.04.2021. The said Office Order reads as follows:
"In continuation of this Court's Office Order No.223/RG/DHC/2021 dated 8.4.2021, keeping in view the alarming rise in the Covid-19 cases in the NCT of Delhi, it has been ordered that all the Hon'ble Benches of this Court shall, with effect from 19.04.2021, take up extremely urgent matters filed in the year 2021 only. It has been further ordered that the other pending routine/non-urgent matters and the matters filed/listed before this Court between 22.3.2020 and 31.12.2020 shall not be taken up by this Court and such matters shall be adjourned "en bloc" as per the dates already notified. In case of any ext
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