Plea to fight dengue in filed in High Court

NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court accusing the AAP government and MCDs of ‘not acting vigilantly and responsibly to control dengue’.

NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court accusing the AAP government and MCDs of ‘not acting vigilantly and responsibly to control dengue’.

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The PIL was filed by an advocate in the wake of dengue deaths and a rise in cases in the national capital.

The plea, which is likely to be taken up for hearing next week, alleged that despite 320 cases of dengue having been reported this year, the authorities concerned have not been “rising up and taking measures to prevent the disease or mosquito breeding”.

“Delhi this year has been facing a severe dengue outbreak, as all the three civic bodies, particularly the South Delhi Municipal Corporation, and the Delhi government have failed to discharge their statutory duties, though it is their responsibility to take preventive measures to control this disease,” the plea filed by advocate Shahid Ali said.

The plea has not only sought direction to the Delhi government and statutory bodies to control the menace but also called for a probe as whether the government and statutory bodies could have controlled the menace and prevented the breeding of dengue mosquitoes.

The plea has also asked whether the Delhi government has released sufficient money to statutory bodies to take effective measures to tackle the menace and why sprinkling of medicines and fogging has not been done in unauthorized areas.

The petitioner said the disease claimed its first victim on July 21 when a girl from Jafrabad died at Lok Nayak Hospital.