COVID-19 | ‘Enforce lockdown or court will order it’, Patna HC tells Bihar govt.

‘It is like complete failure, as infection seems to be unabated,’ said the Bench and sought the government’s decision on Tuesday.

Hitting hard on the Bihar government over the failure in controlling the COVID-19 situation, the Patna High Court has observed that the government should “enforce lockdown or the court will order it”. “It is like complete failure, as infection seems to be unabated. The government seems to be gripped by a state of indecision,” observed the Division Bench of the court, comprising justices Chakradhari Sharan Singh and Mohit Kumar Shah, on Monday. The court said that the State needed a complete lockdown and asked Advocate General Lalit Kishore to speak to the Chief Minister in this regard. “Either the State government declares a lockdown or the court will have to pass an appropriate order,” the court said in an oral observation while directing Mr. Kishore to inform the government’s decision on Tuesday.