Delhi: A 90-year-old retired IPS officer's divorced wife received relief from the Delhi High Court, which told the CGHS to immediately administer the second dose of a life-saving cancer drug to the patient whose former husband had failed to take care of her.

"Life is more precious than any thing else," Division Bench of Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar said while directing the CGHS to treat Vimla Balani itself on Tuesday.

The court rejected the argument of CGHS counsel that her divorced husband had failed to supply any documents to the health department so as to establish that he was a central government health scheme member.

Vimla, who has been taking the anti-cancer drug atleast once in a year, alleged that her husband former IPS officer Jai Kishan Balani had failed to provide any assistance despite this court's direction.

"He did not take any steps to see that she gets medical facility through his CGHS cover and also did not inform the court about how and why the same was not done," counsel for the 70-year-old woman alleged.

Following the Court's earlier order, the CGHS officials had given the first dose of the life-saving the drug to Vimla in June.

"Medicines cost Rs 1.5 lakh for a tri-weekly administration along with hospitalisation. In case, the drug is not taken there is great risk of the disease spreading in her body," Vimla said.

She said this in a petition filed through her counsel R K Saini and Atul Wadhera and alleging that her husband as well as the CGHS have not paid any heed to her pleas for treatment. Balani and Vimla got divorced last year.