In a midnight hearing in the wee hours of Wednesday, the Delhi High Court directed police to ensure safe passage and emergency treatment for those injured in the violence over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The hearing took place at the residence of Justice S. Muralidhar on an urgent plea seeking safe passage for the injured to medical institutions with adequate facilities.
The bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Anup J. Bhambhani directed the Delhi Police to deploy all resources to ensure this.
The Delhi High Court bench also called for a compliance report, including information about the injured and the treatment offered to them.
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The matter will now be heard on Wednesday at 2.15pm.
The bench said the order be communicated to the medical superintendents of the Guru Tegh Bahadur and Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan hospitals in Delhi.
Communal violence over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in northeast Delhi had claimed at least 17 lives till Tuesday as police struggled to check the rioters who ran amok on streets, burning and looting shops, pelting stones and thrashing people.
