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Supreme Court - Daily Orders

In Re The Proper Treatment Of Covid 19 ... vs Mr. Tushar Mehta on 19 May, 2026

                                              IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
                                               CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

                               SUO MOTO WRIT PETITION (CIVIL)            No(s).    7/2020

     IN RE:   THE PROPER TREATMENT OF COVID 19 PATIENTS AND DIGNIFIED
     HANDLING OF DEAD BODIES IN THE HOSPITALS ETC.


                                                          O R D E R

1. The issues that arose for consideration of this Court, pertaining to the COVID-19 Pandemic, no longer survive. The petition has now been rendered infructuous. The same is, accordingly, disposed of, as infructuous.

2. Pending application(s), if any, shall stand closed.

..........................CJI.

(SURYA KANT) ..........................J. (JOYMALYA BAGCHI) ..........................J. (VIPUL M. PANCHOLI) NEW DELHI;

MAY 19, 2026.





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NITIN TALREJA
Date: 2026.05.22
16:34:35 IST
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ITEM NO.23                COURT NO.1                  SECTION PIL-W

                S U P R E M E C O U R T O F     I N D I A
                        RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

SUO MOTO WRIT PETITION(CIVIL) No(s). 7/2020 IN RE THE PROPER TREATMENT OF COVID 19 PATIENTS AND DIGNIFIED HANDLING OF DEAD BODIES IN THE HOSPITALS ETC.

IA No. 63664/2020 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT, IA No. 122729/2020 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION, IA No. 54881/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 55938/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 90409/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 82616/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 54973/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/ DIRECTIONS, IA No. 122271/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 55794/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 56067/2020 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 68811/2020 – CLARIFICATION/DIRECTION, IA No. 48536/2021 – CLARIFICATION/ DIRECTION, IA No. 132855/2020 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING, IA No. 189988/2023 - CONDONATION OF DELAY IN FILING, IA No. 54900/2020

- EARLY HEARING APPLICATION, IA No. 54982/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 72111/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 122680/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 68817/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 90398/2020

- EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 122487/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 130540/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 7273/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55936/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 56420/2020

- EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 122273/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 68639/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 128290/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 56142/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 131223/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55792/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 56124/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 68519/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 118651/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 127849/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 131003/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 30615/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 74588/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 122731/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 54885/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55398/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55939/2020

- EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 72559/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 90410/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 83406/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 130541/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 7291/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 132852/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 92849/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. IA No. 8480/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 74671/2020 - EXEMPTION FROM PAYING COURT FEE, IA No. 63659/2020 - INTERVENTION 2 APPLICATION, IA No. 54880/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 55937/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 122268/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 128197/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 39376/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 74670/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 55790/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 13813/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 131001/2020 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 57318/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 82103/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 90394/2020 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 54971/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 55935/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 77370/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 48535/2021 – INTERVENTION/ IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 68561/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 54897/2020 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 97880/2021 – INTERVENTION/IMPLEADMENT, IA No. 54978/2020 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON, IA No. 54902/2020 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON, IA No. 131002/2020 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON, IA No. 63660/2020 - PERMISSION TO APPEAR AND ARGUE IN PERSON, IA No. 130538/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES, IA No. 56419/2020 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) WITH SLP(C) No. 6381-6382/2021 (III-B) (IA No. 74740/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55837/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 55834/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT, IA No. 55832/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T. and IA No. 74739/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES) Date : 19-05-2026 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM : HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JOYMALYA BAGCHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIPUL M. PANCHOLI For Petitioner(s) : By Courts Motion Ms. Aparna Bhat, Sr. Adv.

Ms. Rajkumari Banju, AOR Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv.

Mr. Saransh Khandelwal, Adv.

Mr. Pritam Singh, Adv.

Mr. Umesh Kumar Shukla, Adv.

Mr. Ankit Bhatnagar, Adv.

For Respondent(s) : Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Manisha Lavkumar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv.

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Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.

Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv.

Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Mr. Awanish Sinha, AOR Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, A.S.G. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.

Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.

Mr. Prashant Singh (ii), Adv. Mr. Mohd.akhil, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv.

Mr. T.s.sabarish, Adv.

Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma-aor, Adv.

Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Yachna Sharma, Adv.

Ms. Arushi Chopra, Adv.

Mr. Nalin Talwar, Adv.

Mr. Aakash Thakur, Adv.

Mr. Surendranath P V, Sr. Adv. Mr. Biju P Raman, AOR Mr. Subhash Chandran K R, Adv. Mr. John Thomas Arakal, Adv.

Mr. Sawan Kumar Shukla, Adv.

Ms. Lekha Sudhakar, Adv.

Ms. Nandana Harikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Anirudh K P, Adv.

Mr. Shubhranshu Padhi, AOR Mr. M. P. Vinod, AOR Ms. Ankita Sharma, AOR Mr. Arjun D Singh, Adv.

Mrs. Ishika Neogi, Adv.

Mr. T.N. Rama Rao, Adv.

Mr. T.L.V. Ramachari, Adv.

Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Chawla, Adv.

Mr. Anupam Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Satvik Sharma, Adv.

Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Mr. Pawanshree Agrawal, AOR Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, AOR Ms. Baani Khanna, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR 4 Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.

Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv.

Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv.

Ms. Yanmi Phazang, Adv.

Mr. D. Kumanan, AOR Mr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Adv.

Ms. Anubha Dhulia, Adv.

Ms. Vidyottma Jha, Adv.

Mr. Jagdeep Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Brijesh Kumar, Adv.

Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Aravindh S., AOR Ms. Anika Bansal, Adv.

Mr. Aadithya Aravindh, Adv.

Mr. Raghvendra Kumar, AOR Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, AOR Mr. Deepayan Dutta, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Tripathi, Adv.

Mr. Parijat Kishore, AOR Mr. G.M. Kawoosa, Adv.

Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, AOR Mr. Vishwa Pal Singh, AOR Mr. Mukesh Kumar, Adv.

Mr. Srikant Singh, Adv.

Mr. Akash, Adv.

Mr. Anurag Pandey, Adv.

Ms. Munisha Anand, Adv.

Mr. Santanu Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Lakhsya Singh, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Manoj V George, Adv.

Ms. Shilpa Liza George, AOR Mr. Nasib Masih, Adv.

Mr. Azeem Samuel, Adv.

Mr. Nishant Mankoo, Adv.

Ms. Antra Srivastava, Adv.

Ms. Brinda Bhattiprolu, Adv.

Mr. Mrinal Elkar Mazumdar, Adv. Ms. Priyadarshini Priya, Adv.

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Ms. Priyanka, Adv.

Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Ramdurg, Adv.

Mr. Yogesh Vats, Adv.

Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. K.M. Nataraj, A.S.G. Ms. Madhulika Upadhyay, AOR Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv.

Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.

Mr. Saurabh Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Mohd. Akhil, Adv.

Mr. Annirudh Sharma-(ii), Adv.

Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, AOR Mr. Mayank Sapra, Adv.

Mr. Karun Shamra, Adv.

Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Adv.

Ms. Rajkumari Divyasana, Adv.

Ms. Manju Jetley, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Shoumendu Mukherji, AOR Ms. Sukanya Das, Adv.

Ms. Megha Sharma, Adv.

Mr. Aniruddha Ghosh, Adv.

Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Sidharth Sethi, AOR Mr. Anand Dilip Landge, Adv.

Mr. Siddharth Dharmadhikari, Adv. Mrs. Aaditya Aniruddha Pande, AOR Mr. Shrirang B. Varma, Adv.

Mr. Sravan Kumar Karanam, AOR Mr. Kumar Abhishek, Adv.

Mr. P. Venkatraju, Adv.

Ms. G. Sushmita, Adv.

Mr. Santosh Kumar Yadav, Adv.

Mr. Ashish Wad, Adv.

Mr. Manoj Wad, Adv.

Mr. Sandeep Patil, Adv.

Ms. Swati Arya, Adv.

Mr. Deepanshu Verma, Adv.

M/s J S Wad And Co, AOR Ms. Aswathi M.k., AOR 6 Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv.

Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv.

Mr. Santhosh K, Adv.

Mrs. Devika A.l., Adv.

Mr. Praveen Chaudhary, Adv.

Mr. Pramod Kumar Chaudhary, Adv.

Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Azmat Hayat Amanullah, AOR Ms. Rebecca Mishra, Adv.

Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Ms. Manisha Lavkumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.

Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, AOR Ms. Nupur Kumar, AOR Ms. Muskan Surana, Adv.

Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Anando Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Shwetank Singh, Adv.

Mrs. Riya Dhingra, Adv.

Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, AOR Ms. Disha Singh , AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv.

Ms. Akansha, Adv.

Ms. Anjali Saxena, Adv.

Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Ms. Ranjeeta Rohatgi, AOR Ms. Misha Rohatgi, AOR Mr. Nakul Mohta, Adv.

Ms. Sneha Menon, Adv.

Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, AOR Mr. Rohit Anil Rathi, AOR Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, AOR Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, AOR Mr. Sachin Patil, AOR Mr. Roshan Santhalia, AOR Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, AOR 7 Mr. Akshay Amritanshu, AOR Mr. Sarthak Srivastava, Adv.

Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, AOR Mr. T.K. Nayak, Adv.

Mr. Z.H. Isaac Haiding, Adv.

Ms. Marbiang Khoongwir, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kumar, Adv.

Ms. Pratima Nain Lakra, AOR Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv.

Mr. Samarth Krishan Luthra, Adv. Mr. Keshav Singh, Adv.

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R SUO MOTO WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No(s). 7/2020 The petition stands disposed of, as infructuous, in terms of the signed order. Signed order is placed on the file.

Pending application(s), if any, shall stand closed.

SLP(C) No. 6381-6382/2021 List on 10.08.2026.

(NITIN TALREJA) (PREETHI DILEEP KUMAR) ASTT. REGISTRAR-cum-PS ASSISTANT REGISTRAR 8