HC says no student, staff can be allowed entry without vax dose
Bengaluru: 05.12.2021
No students, teachers or staff will be permitted to attend school or college without being vaccinated, the high court said on Saturday, dismissing the PIL that challenged the government order in this regard.
“We are of the considered view that no students, teachers or staff who have not received vaccines shall be permitted to attend school or college where students gather in large numbers. As such no directions can be issued to permit teachers, students or staff who have not received at least one dose to attend colleges in terms of the government order dated July 16, 2021,” a division bench headed by chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi said.
Dr Srinivasa B Kakkilaya, a medical practitioner from Mangaluru, a couple of professors teaching in Ayurveda colleges and a student had challenged the circular/GO seeking directions for modification.
The petitioners had claimed the circular makes the Covid-19 vaccination process mandatory in nature and further discriminates on the basis of status of vaccination of a person, thus violating the fundamental rights of citizens.
Contending that the circular is coercive in nature, they pointed out even the World Health Organisation (WHO) has held that vaccines do not prevent spread of the disease from person to person and thus had little potential of stopping the pandemic or preservation of the public health. The circular violates the dictum of the Supreme Court in Common Cause Vs Union of India (2018) case which recognised the right, choice and liberty of an individual to prefer the medicine of his/her choice, it was argued. TNN
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