"If Everyone Gets Priority, Who'd Be Second": High Court Rejects Plea On Covid Vaccines

Delhi High Court dismissed the plea saying, "We see no reasons to entertain the writ petition. Concerned respondent authorities may treat the petition as a representation and decide it in accordance with the law, rules, regulations and government policy applicable to the facts of the case."

The Delhi High Court today declined to entertain a plea seeking waiver of clinical trials of foreign vaccines and priority in vaccination to those who have already taken the first dose, and said authorities may treat the plea as a representation. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh said the reliefs sought in the petition by a lawyer pertained to drafting of policies which was not the domain of the courts which would consider making policy decision only in exceptional cases. The court said the petition by advocate Nazia Parveen was seeking priority in vaccination for those who have already received the first dose of the vaccine and such a relief cannot be given "just for the asking". "It has become a fashion in Delhi that every now and then people are rushing to the courts with PILs for priority in vaccination."