Advocates' associations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have come up with the suggestion that the lawyers' chambers currently lying unused could be turned into makeshift hospitals to treat people suffering from COVID-19.
The Supreme Court Bar Association has written to Chief Justice of India Justice N.V. Ramana, urging that the Advocates Chamber Block in the court complex be used as a temporary COVID-19 healthcare facility. SCBA President Vikas Singh, in the letter addressed to Justice Ramana, urged the CJI to “urgently approve temporary conversion of the Advocates' Chamber Block in the court complex for use as a COVID care centre or a field hospital. Once an approval is given, we will be in a position to request the Delhi government to take over the place for converting it into a COVID care centre.”
The lawyers' association also suggested that the court's summer vacation could be curtailed considering the huge pendency created due to the pandemic.
Supreme Court advocate Shobha Gupta had earlier written to the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association suggesting that the lawyers' chambers, which are at present vacant, be offered to the government, either the Centre or the state, to be used as a makeshift treatment facility. “...we have a huge building meant for lawyers chambers lying vacant. Fortunately, there is no furniture as the chambers are yet to be occupied by the bar members,” Gupta wrote, suggesting that the office space could be offered to the government to be used as a bed facility and also to house doctors on COVID duty.
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In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the Awadh Bar Association in Lucknow has written to the Acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court Sanjay Yadav, suggesting the lawyers' chambers could be used as a temporary COVID care facility.
The lawyers' association suggested that the chambers, the multilevel parking and auditorium could be turned into a makeshift 100-bed hospital.
