NE LEGAL BUREAU
AHMEDABAD, JUNE 27
An Ahmedabad resident has filed a civil application in Gujarat High Court challenging the local civic corporation’s decision to declare his housing complex a micro containment zone in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
Vishwas Bhamburkar has challenged Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s June 20 decision to declare Satellite Centre Cooperative Housing Society, where he stays, as a micro containment zone.
અમદાવાદ મ્યુનિસિપલ કોર્પોરેશન દ્વારા જાહેરમાં માસ્ક ન પહેરેલ હોય તેવા ઇસમો સામે સઘન ઝુંબેશનાં ભાગરૂપે કરવામાં આવેલ કાર્યવાહી.#AmdavadAMC pic.twitter.com/Zx5nAUjx72
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 27, 2020
Bhamburkar also challenged the constitutional validity of the coronavirus-induced lockdown by claiming it forced people under “house arrest” without any backing of the law, and left the vulnerable section struggling for survival with no safeguards provided to them before its implementation.
In his plea, which will be presented for urgent hearing on Monday, Bhamburkar said 12 people from his housing society had tested positive for novel coronavirus till June 13.
Corona treatmnt in pvt hospital is not beyond the reach of poor & needy patient in Ahmedabad. AMC has arranged 2000 beds in more than 50 designated pvt hospitals. Shri Jagdish is thankful and tells us more.@PMOIndia @CMOGuj @ibijalpatel @drrajivguptaias @Mukeshias @aajtak pic.twitter.com/XuEJGCKpY3
— Amdavad Municipal Corporation (@AmdavadAMC) June 27, 2020
Of the 12 who tested positive, nine have recovered, while an elderly woman died, he said.
There has been no new case in the complex in the past 15 days, and therefore the AMC has no grounds to declare it as a micro-containment zone, he contended.
“While demarcating the micro-containment zone is at the discretion of the municipal commissioner, this discretion cannot be used indiscriminately, arbitrarily, unilaterally, illogically, and without having any basis in facts,” he said.
From 16th of march my COVID journey started and i have been assigned to different duties and the best thing is i have done every part associated with COVID management by @AmdavadAMC
1-airport screening
2-quarantine center duty
3-field sample collection duty pic.twitter.com/xwJx8kJxJw— Dr Harshdev Gadhvi (@drhgadhvi) June 27, 2020
He has sought from the court to direct the AMC and state government to reconsider the decision to declare the Satellite Centre Cooperative Housing Society as a micro containment zone.
He has sought that the civil application be heard under the suo motu PIL that is being heard by the division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice JM Pardiwala related to the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown.
