The Chhattisgarh High Court on Saturday suspended its functioning for three days from September 7 after some of employees of the court including in the Centralized Filing Section were detected Covid-19 positive.
An order issued by Registrar General Neelam Chand Sankhla said the court shall have bare minimum support staff to be deputed on rotational basis to deal with extremely urgent cases as is decided by the Chief Justice or by a Judge he nominates.
The extreme urgency of such cases shall be substantiated by filing necessary proceedings before the Registrar (Judicial) as is done in the High Court during holidays. There will be no regular listing of the cases during this period.
No filing of fresh cases shall be allowed. However, this period will not be counted for working out the period of limitation, the order said.
All officers and employees of the court shall work from home and will make themselves available as and when required. No one will leave the headquarters without permission from the Registrar General, failing which stern action shall follow, the order said.
The premises of the court shall be cleaned and sanitized completely and appropriate testing of the Covid-19 suspected cases shall be carried out during this period.