A Division Bench of Delhi HC has dismissed the plea seeking financial aid for the sex workers as well as the persons belong to the LGBTQ community in order to ensure their survival during the COVID19 pandemic observing that the Supreme Court as well as various governments have already brought out several schemes to alleviate hardship to the citizens in the wake of Covid-19 and the persons for whom relief is sought in the petition can also avail the same. The bench was constituted by Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.
The court during the hearing observed that the Petitioner could not present a list of aggrieved persons who have been identified, or who would come forward and identify themselves to seek the claimed relief.
The Petitioner, while claiming waiver of rent, had also not made the concerned landlords a party to this petition.
While reprimanding the Petitioner for moving such a PIL without any groundwork, the court highlighted that:
‘Though the rules framed by this court with respect to PILs require the Petitioner to not only disclose earlier PILs filed but also outcome thereof but the petitioner, paying mere lip service to the said requirement, has pleaded that the earlier PILs filed by him have been “disposed off”. He is even now not telling whether the earlier petitions have been dismissed’ and thus dismissed the plea.
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