COVID-19: Delhi High Court to only hear urgent matters filed in 2021 from today

In view of the ever-rising COVID-19 cases in the national capital, the Delhi High Court on Sunday (April 18) said that it will only hear the urgent matters filed in the year 2021 from Monday (April 19 onwards. 

No routine or non-urgent matters will be taken up for hearing for now, an official statement read

"In continuation of this Court’s Office Order No. 223/RG/DHC/2021 dated 8.4.2021, keeping in view the alarming rise in the Covid-19 cases in the NCT of Delhi, it has been ordered that all the Hon’ble Benches of this Court shall, with effect from 19.04.2021, take up extremely urgent matters filed in the year 2021 only,” said an order issued by Registrar General.

The order further said that other pending routine or non-urgent matters and the matters died or listed before the Delhi High Court between March 22, 2021 and December 31, 2020 “shall not be taken up by this Court and such matters shall be adjourned "en bloc" as per the dates already notified.”

"In case of any extreme urgency, the request in the pending matters may be made on the already notified designated link,” the order stated.

Due to a surge in cases, the Delhi High Court, along with all district courts of the national capital had stopped physical hearing of cases from April 9. The court said it will take up matters through virtual mode till April 23.