The Delhi High Court has now denied making any request for a special 100 bed Covid facility in Ashoka hotel. Good of the court to give admonish the Delhi govt lawyer. But I have something to say and it's not pleasant. Using the High Court's name in an official government order +

+ to set up an exclusive facility for them, at a time when the city is in complete shambles, is the gravest form of contempt there is! Will you and I get away by falsely representing a High Court? No chance. Why then did the Delhi HC not initiate serious contempt proceedings +

+ against the government and just let them go with a rap?

Let me tell you another thing. Like I promised some folks here, I'd been at it since morning to draft and file a PIL in the Supreme Court to bring this patently illegal act to the Apex Court's notice. I'd finished +

+ drafting the petition but NOT ONE advocate-on-record at the Supreme Court was working to file it for me. Not one. And these are people I know for years. Why? Because the Bar Association is about to ask for a similar privilege for themselves and they don't want to ruin their +

+ own chances. Some others don't want to be seen going 'against' the court or the Delhi government. I spoke to at least 50-60 AORs since morning and every single one of them refused. Some also tried to passive-aggresively request me to give up this petition. This is the +

+ pathetic condition of the fraternity. As a last resort, I informed them that of nobody filed it for me, I would file a letter petition before the Hon'ble Chief Justice of India. I could confidently say this, because I knew I had a solid petitioner in the form of @Iyervval +

+ who wouldn't budge no matter what. So thanks to him and to @smitabarooah for encouraging me through this harrowing experience. Also to Siddharth Nayak for trying his level best to make this work. Anyway, I'm glad the Court gave the Delhi govt a dressing down. Much needed.

@_SiddharthNayak I named you but forgot to tag you :/