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HC orders ₹1 cr ex-gratia for kin of principal who died on Covid duty
Millennium Post Delhi
|Delhi 06 September 2025
The Delhi High Court has directed the government in the capital to pay Rs 1 crore ex-gratia to the family of a school principal who died while discharging COVID-19 duties.
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The high court allowed an appeal filed by his widow challenging a single judge's decision, which held the man was not on COVID duty at the relevant time. "We have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that the unfortunate demise of the late husband of the appellant was caused on account of contracting novel coronavirus while discharging COVID-19 duties," a bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Tushar Rao Gedela said on September 4.
Shivnath Prasad, the plea said, joined the services of Delhi government as an assistant teacher in May 1993 and was the principal of the MCD Primary Boys School in Nithari at the time when he died.
This story is from the Delhi 06 September 2025 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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