India: Dengue situation in Lucknow very pitiable: High Court

Mosquito dengue

Lucknow, Nov 4 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court on Friday expressed surprise that though the ground reality related to dengue is very pitiable in the city, everything is being said to be fine in government records.

The Lucknow bench of the high court said that if it had its own agency, it would have definitely cross checked the government data, which stressed that the situation is under control and there is no lack of beds and other facilities in the government hospitals to check vector borne diseases in the capital.

A bench of justices D K Upadhyay and Saurabh Srivastava passed these remarks while hearing the UP government's reply on a PIL raising the issue of dengue menace in the city. The bench fixed the next hearing on November 9.