The Supreme Court declined to entertain a public interest litigation (PIL) on Monday seeking directions to the Centre to line up a global task force of experts to search out out the origin of the second wave of Covid-19 virus which led to an oversized number of deaths and hospitalisation within the country.
The bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud asked the petitioner to approach the Centre and said that it cannot enter into conspiracy theories. Justice Chndrachud said that everybody is that specialize in managing the pandemic in India and trying to not ‘delve into conspiracy theories.’
“We will rather target managing the pandemic in our country than delving into conspiracy theories involving other nations, on which we do not even have a jurisdiction,” Justice Chandrachud said in keeping with a report by wire service ANI.
The petition was filed by Mumbai-based Pankaj Phadnis, a researcher and a trustee of Abhinav Bharat Congress, who later withdrew it.
“We haven’t any jurisdiction over Chinese or americans. the govt. is there to listen to you. Plea dismissed as withdrawn,” the Supreme Court said.
The plea also sought direction to the Union of India to stay track of to any extent further mutation so it’s not caught unaware if cases surge. “A recent report co-authored by the previous chief economic advisor to the govt. of India confirms the existence of a war-like situation by suggesting that as many 3.9 million Indians are killed within the last three months by the second wave of the pandemic. The monumental tragedy isn’t yet over,” the plea, accessed by ANI, said.
The plea said that the international task force should also include Chinese nationals and added that the origins of the ‘Wuhan’ virus has to be called well because the Delta variant.
The plea claimed that the Delta variant of Covid-19 is ‘bringing opprobrium upon India within the eyes of the world’.
