Supreme Court to marshal ex gratia payment to families that lost lives to COVID-19

The Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to take the reins and marshal the efforts to pay compensation to families that lost their relatives to COVID-19, after noticing some States responded to the humanitarian move in a lukewarm fashion.

A Bench of Justices M.R. Shah and Sanjiv Khanna said many of the families were economically challenged and had been further crippled by the fact that the pandemic took away their sole breadwinner.