Closure of one gate is not obstruction, says HC

VERDICT| The PIL was filed through Advocate Nitin Jain

- Our Staff Reporter

Principal bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court at Jabalpur on Wednesday refused to accept closure of one gate of a facility as obstruction with disposing of a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought directions to the Government District Hospital in Khandwa to grant unrestricted access to the public for visiting a Shiv Temple and Hazrat Syed Chand Shah Wali Mazar located within its premises.

A division bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf observed that while one of the hospital gates had been closed for security reasons, access to the religious sites remained available through an alternative route.