{"id":229381,"date":"2020-05-12T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T11:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=229381"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T12:19:04","slug":"covid-19-del-hc-keeping-a-person-under-unjustified-home-quarantine-has-deleterious-civil-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/12\/covid-19-del-hc-keeping-a-person-under-unjustified-home-quarantine-has-deleterious-civil-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"[COVID-19] Del HC | Keeping a person under unjustified home quarantine has deleterious civil consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delhi High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>C. Hari Shankar, J., while addressing a petition held that,<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"Page 21\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&#8220;Courts have necessarily to be slow in subjecting executive action, taken in the context of the COVID- 2019 crisis, to searching judicial scrutiny.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petition on 24th March, 2020 came in contact with a pizza delivery person who was tested positive with COVID-19 on 14th April, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner was thus home quarantined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the said period of quarantine, petitioner was issued a warning notice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner&#8217;s Counsel, Shyel Trehan had advanced the following submissions in the last hearing:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>warning notice, dated 20th April, 2020, was completely false on facts. There had been no violation, by her client, of the home quarantine imposed on him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>despite the expiry of the period of home quarantine on 28th April, 2020, the officials of the respondent had directed the petitioner to continue to remain quarantined till the notice of <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">quarantine, affixed on his premises, was removed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 4\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Period of quarantine was not in conformity with the applicable guidelines on the issue, specifically, the \u201cGuideline for Home Quarantine\u201d issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) 14th March, 2020 and the Delhi Epidemic Diseases, COVID-2019 Regulations, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Present petition also sought direction to respondent with regard to formulate a policy to enable people in home quarantine to access private laboratories for COVID-19 test.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 8\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Trehan submitted that, these regulations, unmistakably, justify placing a person in quarantine only for a period of 14 days from the date on which the person came in contact with someone who was found to be COVID-2019 positive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bench stated that,<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 16\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tackling the COVID-2019 pandemic is a challenge, the scale of which has not been seen during the lifetime of any of us and, hopefully, would not be seen hereafter either. Though <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">while tackling the challenge, civil and constitutional rights of citizens cannot be compromised.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" title=\"Page 16\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;while examining whether, in a particular case, such compromise has, or has not, taken place, it is as much incumbent on the citizen, as on the Court, to adopt an approach which is not hyper-legalistic, but is pragmatic and practical, and would not disturb the efforts to tide over the pandemic, in which efforts, rewardingly, the nation has come together as a whole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 16\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In the opinion of this Court, the period of 14 days, stipulated in the afore-extracted provisions in the Guidelines of 14th March, 2020 and the 2020 Regulations is not mandatory, but is intended to serve as a general guideline.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Court is unwilling to hold that in each and in every case, the period of home quarantine must stand limited to 14 days, and no more. Also, <\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">keeping a person under unjustified home quarantine also has deleterious civil consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hence, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Court is of the opinion that, at this juncture, the interests of justice would be abundantly protected by a direction, to the effect that if any person, <em>who does not display COVID-2019 symptoms, and has not tested positive for the COVID- 2019 virus, is home quarantined for over 14 days, he shall have a right to represent to the authorities against such continued quarantine and, if he so represents, the authorities would be bound either to lift the quarantine forthwith, or to explain, to the person concerned, as expeditiously as possible and without any undue delay, the reason for keeping him in home quarantine for over 14 days.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 18\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>However, all notices, placing persons under home quarantine, have necessarily to indicate the period of home quarantine, as well as the date from which it is to commence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In view of the above, petition stands disposed of. [Amit Bhargava v. State (NCT of Delhi), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/rOrMaT9i\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Del 583<\/b><\/a> , decided on 11-05-2020]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court:\u00a0C. 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