HC notice to Centre on vaccine pricing
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Court posts petitions for further hearing after April 30
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Court posts petitions for further hearing after April 30
A Division Bench of the lateral High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre, Mahabharata Biotech and Serum Institute of India on two public interest writ petition challenging the Centres liberalised pricing and accelerated national COVID-19 vaccination strategy which prescribes differential pricing for the vaccine.
The notices were issued by the Bench comprising Justice Ashok Menon and Justice Murali Purushothaman when the petitions by M.K. Muneer, Indian Union Muslim League leader, and C.P. Promod, State secretary, All India Lawyers Union (AILU), came up before it.
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High Court moved against Centre’s vaccine pricing
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‘Health concerns of majority of citizens given a go-by’
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‘Health concerns of majority of citizens given a go-by’
A writ petition was on Monday filed in the Kerala High Court challenging the Union government’s Liberalised Pricing and Accelerated National COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy which prescribes differential pricing for COVID-19 vaccines.
In his petition, C.P. Promod, State secretary of the All India Lawyers Union (AILU) owing allegiance to the CPI(M) pointed out that differential pricing for vaccines was not scientific. Fifty percent of the vaccines was made available to the Union government at the rate of ₹150 a dose. The price of the remaining 50% of vaccines being made available to State governments and others were left to the discretion of the manufacturers, leaving it to the compulsions of market forces. Thus, the health concerns of majority of the citizens were given a go
Advocates stage demonstration
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All India Lawyers Union on Tuesday staged a demonstration at Tallakulam here against the newly enacted farms laws. Advocates raised slogans in support of farmers and said that the new farm laws were against the interest of the farmers.
Advocates who took out a march from the District Court to Tallakulam said agriculture was the backbone of the country. The farm laws catered to the interest of the Corporate companies, they said at the demonstration.
Agriculture is under the State list. Therefore, the State government must oppose the new farm laws that were against the farmers, said All India Lawyers Union General Secretary N. Muthu Amuthanathan.
Lawyers meet Bhagavan, condemn attack on him
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The lawyers with K.S. Bhagavan in Mysuru on Sunday.
A group of lawyers from Mysuru, Mandya and Chamarajanagar called upon Kannada writer and rationalist K.S. Bhagavan at his residence in the city on Sunday and denounced the attack on him by a lawyer in Bengaluru last week.
The lawyers, under the aegis of Karnataka State unit of All India Lawyers Union (AILU), met Prof. Bhagavan and expressed solidarity with him. They will hold a programme called ‘Prof. Bhagavan avarondige vakeelaru’ (Lawyers with Prof. Bhagavan) in Mysuru next week. The date and venue are yet to be finalised.