Scheme For Delhi Accident Victims Will Be Back Soon, Supreme Court Told

New Delhi: 

The “Farishtey Dilli Ke” scheme for providing free treatment to accident victims will likely be back on track soon, with the office of the lieutenant governor of Delhi informing the Supreme Court on Friday that the society running it has recently met and decided to release funds for its implementation.

The lawyer appearing for the lieutenant governor’s office told the court it was not a “Council of Ministers versus LG” issue.

The counsel termed the case as a “storm in a teacup” and told a bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta that the LG is not involved in the implementation of the scheme which was governed by a society headed by the city government’s health minister.

You file an affidavit to that effect. If we find that the minister has taken us for a ride, we will impose exemplary cost,” the bench told senior advocate Sanjay Jain, appearing for the LG’s office.

Jain said, “Nobody has taken anybody for a ride expect that the petitioner has used this court’s forum to agitate something… it is a classic case of storm in a teacup”.

He told the bench, which was hearing a petition filed by the Delhi government seeking release of funds for the scheme, that it was not a “Council of Ministers versus LG” issue.

“This scheme was governed by a society, and in a recent meeting of the society which has taken place on January 2, they have decided to release the funds from which all pending claims will be issued,” Jain said.