The Supreme Court on Tuesday termed as “wholly uncalled for” the relaxations granted by the Kerala government for the Bakrid festival in areas having the highest COVID-19 positivity rate and warned that it will take action if the easing of curbs leads to further spread of the virus.<\/p>\n
The apex court pulled up the state government for giving in to traders’ pressure by granting relaxations ahead of Bakrid and said it disclosed a “sorry state of affairs”.<\/p>\n
A bench of justices R F Nariman and B R Gavai said that the citizenary of India has been laid bare to the nationwide pandemic by grant of such relaxations by the Kerala government.<\/p>\n
“We direct the Kerala government to give heed to the Right to Life enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution,” the bench said.<\/p>\n
The bench was hearing an application which raised the issue of relaxations granted by the Kerala government in view of the Bakrid festival.<\/p>\n
It was filed in a matter in which the apex court had last week taken suo motu cognisance of earlier media reports on the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to allow Kanwar Yatra amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Source : PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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