Very careful before using court orders to politicise Covid: Gujarat High Court

  • Gujarat High Court stated that court orders, in which it slammed the government for its failure to control the spread Covid-19 pandemic, should not be made basis to criticise the government and politicise Covid-19 issue.
  • High Court said that if the state government would not have been doing anything, as alleged, then probably, by now, we all would have been dead.
  • On Friday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Nath and Justice J.B. Pardiwal noted that its orders were being “misused for some oblique motive”.
  • The court requested people to be “very careful from now onward before commenting or entering into any debate with regard to Court orders” being passed in public interest.
  • The court also added the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) as a respondent, directing it to answer people’s questions on its testing policies.
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