new Delhi. The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on the Centre’s plea seeking a test check of COVID death compensation applications to identify cases using forged documents. Further, on the aspect of fixing the time limit for filing of COVID death claim applications, the bench said that it may grant 60 days for filing claims for persons who have already died due to COVID, and For future deaths, it can give 90 days. A bench of Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna said that it may ask the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to conduct a random check on 5 per cent of the Covid death claim applications in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala and Maharashtra, which have registered an official death toll. More claim applications have been filed than figures.
Initially, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted before the bench that certain reports of misuse of COVID death compensation have been noted and urged the court to allow the central and state governments to conduct a sample survey, as each case would be It is not possible to check.
Mehta also urged the apex court to set an outer limit for filing of COVID death claim applications and suggested a time limit of 4 weeks from Monday.
Petitioner advocate Gaurav Bansal submitted that the outer limit for filing claim applications should be 90 days, as the families need some time to recover from the loss of life. Bansal said that the NDMA has provisions to address the issues of fake COVID claims.
Reserving the order in the matter, the bench said that it may grant 60 days for the persons who have already died due to COVID, from filing the claim, and for future deaths, it may extend to 90 days. Will give time The bench emphasized that if there is any reason for the delay in filing the claim application, then the state government should not deny it and said that the order in the matter is expected on Wednesday.
Justice Shah said: “If death occurs, the family needs time to recover from the grief and then file a claim.” The Center had submitted that without any time-limit, the claim process could become a ‘never-ending’ process.
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