JUDGMENT

D.N. Patel, Chief Justice (Oral)--The Court is convened through Video Conferencing.

2. Consequent on the global devastation wrought by the n-COVID-2019 pandemic, to which India is no exception, the executive administration in this country has had to take certain hard- hitting decisions, and to put in place a slew of curbs, restraints, and containments, so as to minimise, to the extent possible, the societal effect of the viral pandemic. Many establishments and offices, save and except those which render essential services, or trade in essential goods and commodities, have had to be shut down, and a near complete lockdown imposed, on a national scale,