If the President can, why can't your ministers go to vaccine centres: Bombay HC slams Maharashtra govt

The Bombay High Court on Friday slammed the Maharashtra government over ministers getting their vaccine doses at their homes. The Bombay HC asked the Maharashtra government as to why its ministers cannot go to a vaccine centre to get the jab when even the President went to a centre to get vaccinated.

While the Central government told the Bombay High Court that there was no policy to administer Covid-19 vaccines to people at their homes, the court questioned how some politicians in Maharashtra were getting it sitting at their homes. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish Kulkarni was hearing a PIL filed by two advocates, Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari, who are seeking directions to the Centre, Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to provide door-to-door vaccination facility for people over 75 years of age, the specially-abled and the bedridden. The petitioners had said that there were many people who called for help as they were unable to go to vaccination centres. Without naming anyone who got vaccinated at home, Chief Justice Datta said: "How is that Maharashtra political leaders are getting Covid-19 jabs at home if there is no door-to-door policy? There has to be a uniform policy. What has happened, has happened. If we find any report that any political leader is taking a jab at home, we will see to it."