The highest court of the country opined, “clampdown of information is contrary to basic percepts”. The SC lodged a case & a special bench consisting justice D.Y Chandrachud, L. Nageswar Rao & S. Rabindra Bhat after moving through it categorically ordered, any move by any state or the Central GOVT to punish citizens who take to the social media to seek help for oxygen cylinders, covid-19 drugs, beds, hospitalization etc amid a rampaging second wave would attract contempt of court action. Justice Chandrachud after expressing the same, repatriated that the court don’t want any clampdown of information. This will be treated as a contempt of court if such grievances is considered for action. Particularly, the said message meant for all the states & DGP of states. Even the solicitor general Tushar Meheta fully agreed with the highest court. Analyzing from all point of view, justice Chandrachud even quoted that free flow of information in the 1970 famine enabled the GOVT to tackle the situation effectively as compared to 1918 pandemic. Justice Nageswar Rao also viewed seriously & told empathy &action should be the rule of the day. The special bench questioned how the centre expected a sense of equity from vaccine manufacturers. Also, emphatically court noted that vaccine manufacturing was publicly funded & vaccines were public property. Why can’t the GOVT at present buy the entire doses of vaccines?
From the remarks made by the special bench it has been cleared that the GOVT in center & states should be careful enough for vaccination of illiterate people with a national immunization programme policy; side by side to look to the ground reality of ‘covid warriors’. Not only that, but also social media & internet news can’t be taken lightly at least.