18 April 2021
Hardeep Singh Dibdiba, the grandfather of Navreet Singh who died during the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, addresses farmers at the Ghazipur protest site on 13 February. That month, Dibdiba moved the Delhi High Court seeking an independent investigation into his grandson’s death, and for a copy of Navreet’s X-ray and post-mortem video. ANI / Hindustan Times
Hardeep Singh Dibdiba, the grandfather of Navreet Singh who died during the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, addresses farmers at the Ghazipur protest site on 13 February. That month, Dibdiba moved the Delhi High Court seeking an independent investigation into his grandson’s death, and for a copy of Navreet’s X-ray and post-mortem video.
Delhi sees highest daily surge of 19,486 COVID-19 cases, 141 deaths
On Thursday and Wednesday, the city had recorded 16,699 and 17,282 cases respectively. This is the fifth record daily rise in cases in the national capital in the last six days
PTI | April 17, 2021 | Updated 10:20 IST
The positivity rate fell marginally to 19.69 per cent from Thursday s 20.22 per cent, the highest so far
Delhi Friday recorded the biggest single-day jump of 19,486 fresh COVID-19 cases and 141 deaths due to the disease, according to data shared by the health department. On November 18 last year, the city had recorded 131 COVID-19 deaths, which was the highest single-day fatality count in Delhi till April 15 since the start of the pandemic.
The weekend curfew aimed at breaking the chain of spiralling coronavirus infections was clamped at 10 pm on Friday and will continue till 5 am on Monday.
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1590 Hardip Singh Dibdiba (centre), grandfather of Navreet Singh who died riding a tractor on January 26. File photo
New Delhi, April 15
The Delhi High Court Thursday granted time to the family of a 25-year-old farmer, who died after his tractor overturned during the farmers’ protest rally on the Republic Day, to seek opinion of experts on his post mortem and X-Ray reports.
Justice Yogesh Khanna also asked the Delhi Police to allow the family to view the CCTV footage of the spot where the incident took place, whenever they want to.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on July 26.