HC declines Mumbai lawyers’ plea to permit them to use local trains
The Hindu
PILs had sought their inclusion in the list of essential staff during pandemic
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday said it could not go beyond medical advice and declare lawyers as essential staff to enable them to use local trains to travel to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was hearing a couple of public interest litigation petitions seeking their inclusion in the list of essential staff and to permit them to travel by the special suburban/local trains being run during the pandemic. On July 1, the court had asked the State government to take a call on permitting judicial clerks to use the train service. The State, however, said it could not permit lawyers to use the trains till the COVID-19 situation improved.
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