HC decides to hear urgent matters only Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The Delhi High Court on Sunday announced that it will only take up “extremely urgent matters” from April 19 onwards, in view of the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases in the Capital. The order issued by High Court’s Registrar General Manoj Jain said that other pending routine or non-urgent matters and those cases filed or listed before the court between March 22, 2020 and December 31, 2020, shall not be taken up for now and would be adjourned. “In case of any extreme urgency, the request in the pending matters may be made on the already notified designated link,” the office order said. “Keeping in view the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases in the NCT of Delhi, it has been ordered that all the Benches of this court shall with effect from April 19, 2021, take up extremely urgent matters filed in the year 2021 only,” it added.