How are celebrities getting Covid medicines when states crying shortage, asks Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has raised questions over the number of celebrities and politicians who are distributing Covid medicines and asked who will guarantee the quality of these Covid drugs.

The Bombay High Court has expressed concern over the number of celebrities and politicians distributing Covid-related medicines and aid to those in need. The court asked who will guarantee the quality of these Covid drugs. “We are concerned about the lives of our citizens. There cannot be any mileage, popularity or any other kind of mileage from this. We are deeply pained if needy patients are being deprived of it. This is a sorry state of affairs," Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni of the Bombay High Court said while going through the notes submitted by the Maharashtra government on celebrities and politicians procuring Covid-19 medicines for the needy. The note said that the government had served show-cause notices (on procuring Covid-19 relief materials) to Mumbai Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique and the Sood Charity Foundation (actor Sonu Sood’s NGO), but was yet to receive their replies. Hearing this, the high court said, "We aren't impressed. By now you should have had recorded their (celebrities) statements. They don't have any license."