Legal perspective on govt's failure to handle Covid19, desecration of dead bodies By Basit Farooq and Aabid Mushtaq, The Milli Gazette Online 24 May 2021 After having failed to provide them oxygen, cremation and burial of the dead is the least a state must ensure Covid-19 has disrupted normal life in all facets, stagnating the worldly environment and situations around it. Everything that had acquired significance in life and in the corridors of power, politics and authority has apparently lost its value, setting out new priorities for survival. When any country’s competence and stability is challenged by whatsoever factor, it must, and more importantly its leaders and otherwise institutions, act with vision and take timely actions ensuring public order and safety of its subjects. However, the leadership seems to have utterly failed in India, the helplessness is very clear and visible in the ongoing surge in the infections and deaths in the country. This doesn’t stop here; there is out and out scarcity of basic health care facilities which has been termed as genocidal act on the part of the government, inviting fierce criticism from judiciary.