Coronavirus lockdown | Chhattisgarh CJ throws a lifeline to stranded students

At a time when thousands of people are stranded across the country due to the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown, Chhattisgarh High Court Chief Justice P.R. Ramachandra Menon has quietly helped scores of medical and nursing students of AIIMS Raipur travel home.

Chief Justice Menon’s timely intervention, on the basis of an email received from a Supreme Court lawyer, saw the State government swing into action to provide buses for the students to return to their hometowns in Kerala.

Justice Menon, speaking to The Hindu on Sunday, said these students were tomorrow’s frontline workers in case of a future health crisis and they should be able to trust the system to help them in their need of hour. “Let them be able to do their duty to society in the years to come,” he said over the telephone from Chhattisgarh.

The email sent by advocate Haris Beeran on May 17