

The Supreme Court on Monday heard a plea seeking ex-gratia monetary compensation of Rs 4 lakh or notified ex-gratia monetary compensation to the families of deceased, who have succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic
Senior Advocate S.B. Upadhyay appeared for the petitioner before the bench of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice M.R. Shah. He submitted, “We are seeking that giving effect to Section 12, a certificate needs to be issued that death is due to COVID-19… there are cases, where the bodies are being taken from mortuary to cremation ground. There needs to be a certificate. There is a letter of March 14, 2020, which says to give benefit under the NDMA Act, the disaster has to be natural one. COVID was notified as a disaster,” he added.





