Delhi High Court Questions Centre on Oxygen Crisis

Delhi's desperate oxygen crisis resonated in the High Court on Wednesday, with the judges skewering the Centre with harsh questions, demanding why it was "not waking up to reality". "How is the government so oblivious to the reality on ground? You can't have people die because there is no oxygen," the court said while hearing an appeal by the Max Group, which had flagged oxygen crisis in two of its hospitals earlier in the afternoon. Slamming the Centre for still allowing industrial use of oxygen despite its Tuesday's order, the court said, "This is really ridiculous. You are concerned with the industries while people die... That means human lives doesn't matter for the government," the judges said.