HC pulls up Telangana government over nod for New Year revelry

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court on Thursday strongly criticised the decision of the state government to allow New Year celebrations till
late at night even as there existed a fresh Covid-19 threat.A division bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B
Vijaysen Reddy asked Advocate-General B.S
Prasad to urge the government for a reconsideration of the decision
The bench directed the government to consider the possibility of imposing Section 144 CrPC on the state as a new strain of Coronavirus has
step-up in testing, strengthening of medical infrastructure etc to contain Coronavirus
curfew and restricted New Year celebrations? Merely by closing the Tank Bund and flyovers will not help
curfew and asked if this could be done for the coming days
from the United Kingdom and not being traceable, the Chief Justice cautioned the government to be more vigilant.The court directed the
government to consider the possibility of issuing a GO, through which a clear message can be sent to such of those who hide their addresses
on arrival or give wrong information
shops to not insist on bio-metric identification for obtaining provisions
second wave of Covid-19.