The Delhi High Court Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking free of cost COVID-19 testing and treatment at all private labs and hospitals in the national capital for everyone, rich or poor, saying PILs should be filed with “some responsibility“. A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said it would dismiss the petition with costs after which the petitioner“s counsel sought to withdraw the plea. “The petition is disposed of as not pressed at this stage,” the court said.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking free of cost COVID-19 testing and treatment at all private labs and hospitals in the national capital for everyone, rich or poor, saying PILs should be filed with “some responsibility“. A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said it would dismiss the petition with costs after which the petitioner“s counsel sought to withdraw the plea. “The petition is disposed of as not pressed at this stage,” the court said.