The SC said hostels, temples, churches and other places be opened for converting them as Covid-19 care centres.
NEW DELHI: There should be no clampdown on citizens seeking help on the presumption that they are raising false grievances on the internet, the Supreme Court said on Friday, terming the second wave of Covid-19 cases as a national crisis. There should be free flow of information, we should hear voices of citizen, said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, and asked the Centre, states and all DGPs not to take any action against anyone posting a shortage of oxygen, beds or doctors as spreading rumour.
Clampdown on information will be treated as contempt of court : Key points from SC s Covid-19 hearing
Further, the Supreme Court observed that the situation was indeed grim as even doctors and healthcare workers are not getting beds.
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With social media becoming the new SOS platform for many people during the second COVID-19 wave in India, the Supreme Court on Friday said don t want any clampdown of information. The court will treat it as a contempt if such grievances are considered for action. We want to make it very clear that if citizens communicate their grievance on social media, then it cannot be said it s wrong information, said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud.
"There should be free flow of information, we should hear voices of citizen," said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, and asked the Centre, states and all DGPs not to take any action against anyone posting a shortage of oxygen, beds or doctors as spreading rumour.
Free flow of information necessary Voices of citizens seeking help should not be silenced, warns SC ‘If any action is taken against such posts, we will treat it as contempt of court’
There should be no clampdown on citizens seeking help on the presumption that they are raising false grievances on the internet, the Supreme Court said on Friday, terming the second wave of Covid-19 cases as a national crisis. There should be free flow of information, we should hear voices of citizens, said a bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, and asked the Centre, states and all DGPs not to take any action against anyone posting a shortage of oxygen, beds or doctors as spreading rumour. We are in a human crisis, the bench said.
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