The Delhi High Court on Friday turned down Matrix Cellular’s request for permission to withdraw COVID-19-related imports from customs and store them at any place indicated by the police, in order to avoid further demurrage charges. During the hearing of its request, the company made the oral request before Justice Asha Menon, requesting that the police refrain from taking any disciplinary action, such as removal of its oxygen concentrators or other relevant items, it will be importing or has imported in connection with COVID-19 care.
Matrix requested the court for allowance to withdraw its goods from the customs warehouse, where they are currently being held to avoid paying demurrage charges for the time the consignment is being held by the authorities and willing to store the products at any location specified by the police before the outcome of the current petition. The organization requested the police, and the Centre’s lawyers requested that the case be heard the next week.
“Matrix claims that its import of the concentrators was legal and that a portion of the shipment was kept at Navneet Kalra’s restaurant ‘Nege and Ju’ as a “collection center” where people could buy the units without having to queue outside the company’s office, an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients in the city has resulted in many people in desperate need of concentrators, which has resulted in people queuing outside its office”, said Rajat Agarwal, Managing Director of Matrix corporation Pvt. Ltd.
The applicant (Matrix) agreed to designate an alternative site as a storage point for the oxygen concentrators and related equipment. The petitioner (Matrix) wanted to designate an alternative location as a storage point for oxygen concentrators and related equipment, and the Petitioner named a restaurant called “Nege and Ju. The “collection center” was chosen because it was centrally located and open to people from all over the National Capital Region.
Based on an unfounded claim that the concentrators were being used in a black-market operation, the police confiscated all of the concentrators at the collection center, and police officers arrived at the petitioner’s office and seized the entire stock of oxygen concentrators there.
“The anticipation of more prejudicial and coercive action by these police officers against the goods being acquired by the petitioner, similar to that already taken by these police officers about the products previously seized, the Petitioner has filed the present writ petition, seeking, among other things, orders prohibiting the respondents (police) from taking any further prejudicial and coercive action against the goods being acquired by the petitioner”, added Rajat Agarwal.
Digivision Holdings Private Ltd owns Media Matrix Worldwide Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Digivision Holdings Private Ltd. Proximus Knowledge and Technology Services Private Limited is one of its subsidiaries. Media Matrix Worldwide (MMWL) is a professionally run organization to capitalize on the Indian entertainment industry’s boom. The business is constantly improving its goods and services to become market leader in the film industry.
