2113 BASELESS: There is no data from any country which has seen three or four waves to infer that children were more commonly affected in any wave. Tribune photo
Chandrakant Lahariya
Public Policy and Health Systems Expert
There is a lot of discussion going on that the third wave would affect mainly children. In a hearing, a Bench of the Supreme Court has asked about the government’s plan to protect children from the third wave. Maharashtra has set up a separate state task force for Covid-19 in children. The Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has recommended the setting up of paediatric task forces on Covid-19 in every district. Some health experts have suggested that special paediatric Covid-19 intensive care units, catering to up to 5 per cent of the child population, should be set up.
As some Supreme Court lawyers back off
The argument as to whether the Judiciary Inquiry Commission’s (JIC) recommendation for the Supreme Court to suspend Judge Eva Mappy Morgan for a year without pay and benefits is taking a dramatic turn as some of the lawyers appointed to represent the high court have declined the appointment.
The argument has been scheduled for hearing on Thursday, May 27, at 11am.
The JIC, the Supreme Court’s disciplinary commission for judges, after eight months of Investigation on Wednesday, April 7 said, Judge “Eva Mappy Morgan, respondent, recklessly abused her discretion when she illegally ordered the President of the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI) to unfreeze the accounts of Ducor Petroleum Inc.”
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424 Supreme Court. File photo
It was in 1992 that a nine-judge Bench of the Supreme Court had drawn the ‘Lakshman rekha’ for reservation in jobs and education at 50 per cent, except in ‘extraordinary circumstances’. While refusing to reconsider the landmark verdict and by quashing the Maharashtra law granting quota to the Maratha community in admissions and government jobs which allowed it to exceed 60 per cent the apex court has shown the rule book to governments and parties pandering to vote bank interests, and catering to demands that defeat the very purpose of reservation. A stern message was delivered that people from the Maratha community cannot be declared as educationally and socially backward to bring them within the reserved category since it would be a violation of not only the due process of law, but also the right to equality.