Lt Governor's 5-day mandatory quarantine order replaced: AAP govt tells HC

L-G's direction was substituted by the Delhi government's order which did away with the mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for asymptomatic patients

The AAP government on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that the Lieutenant Governor's order on mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients has been replaced, which makes the PIL challenging it infructuous.

Taking note of the submission, a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said the grievances raised in the plea have been brought to an end by the latest Delhi government order of June 20 which replaced the L-G's June 19 direction for mandatory five-day institutional quarantine for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients.

The court said if the petitioner, Nancy Roy, was aggrieved by