PIL filed in Gauhati High Court over Lekhi Quarantine Centre

ITANAGAR: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Gauhati High Court for issuing an ex-parte order appointing a Court Commissioner to visit the State Quarantine Centre (SQC) at Lekhi near here.

Notices to the respondents are returnable within two weeks. The respondents are the Itanagar Capital Region District Administration, the Health & Family Welfare Department, the Government of India and the Government of Arunachal Pradesh.

The PIL, filed by one Sange Dakpa Loda, has sought the Court's intervention "as the SQC lacks basic facilities, sanitation and care, contradicting WHO recommendations."

"Getting proper sanitation, food, medicines, and regular doctors' visits will ultimately save their (inmates) lives," it reads.

The petition states that the petitioner and his colleagues carried out "fact-finding by interacting and getting in touch with those people who have lived and are still living there (SQC)," and found the Centre lacking in facilities.

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