The Supreme Court Must Wake Up and Reject Govt Vaccine Affidavit — Dushyant Dave

In a powerful and passionate interview, where he is equally critical of the government’s attitude to the Supreme Court as he is of the Supreme Court’s docile and timid defence of human rights, one of India’s best known lawyers has said: “I’m begging and beseeching the Supreme Court with folded hands to get out of your slumber and assert itself”. Dushyant Dave, a former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was speaking about the Supreme Court’s response to several petitions regarding the government’s handling of the present Covid-19 crisis from the very start of the pandemic. However, the specific issue was the Supreme Court’s silence after receiving the government’s recent affidavit on vaccine policy wherein the government, in paragraph 24, effectively told the Supreme Court not to interfere on the grounds that setting vaccine policy is part of the executive domain and not the judicial.