The Delhi High Court has sought responses from the Centre and the AAP government on a PIL seeking that drinking water, sanitation and healthcare facilities be made available to traffic police officers on their sites in view of "extreme weather" and pollution.


Apart from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Aam Aadmi Party government, a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice VK Rao also issued notice to Delhi Traffic Police and the Central Pollution Control Board, seeking their stand on the issue.


The central government's standing counsel Ravi Prakash and advocate Farman Ali, appearing for MHA accepted the notice and said that a response would be filed before the next date of hearing on January 23, 2019.


The NGO has alleged that queries under the Right to Information law have revealed that neither the MHA nor the Delhi government has any such scheme to provide health benefits, water or sanitation to Delhi Police officers. -- PTI