Efforts on to normalise life: AG to High Court

Legal Correspondent

Shimla, January 12

Efforts have been made to bring normalcy in Shimla. This was stated by the Advocate General before the High Court during the course of hearing of a PIL plea on the issue of disruption of normal life due to heavy snow in the town.

The counsel for the state electricity board has said the electricity board had restored electricity in Shimla and was trying to restore it in other parts. After hearing the matter, a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Sandeep Sharma directed the Chief Secretary to file a fresh status report after receiving the inputs from all the departments within four weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on March 8.

Apart from this the Advocate General, Shrawan Dogra has also filed reply/affidavit on behalf of the state authorities along with details of generators in the IGMC, Kamla Nehru Hospital & DDU Zonal Hospital, Shimla.

After perusing the reply filed by the Advocate General, a Division Bench, headed by the Chief Justice, observed: “It appears that there was a premature delivery of a male child in Kamla Nehru Hospital on January 3, who had developed cardiac arrest on the same day. On January 7 at 5:30 pm, the infant was revived. Thereafter, the infant was on ventilator, which is having an inbuilt battery back-up, but the infant again had cardiac arrest on January 7 and died at 11 pm.