‘Wholly uncalled for’: SC lashes out at Kerala authorities over relaxations granted for Bakrid

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By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Tuesday termed as “wholly uncalled for” the relaxations granted by the Kerala authorities for the Bakrid pageant in areas having the best COVID-19 positivity charge and warned that it’ll take motion if the easing of curbs results in additional unfold of the virus.

The apex courtroom pulled up the state authorities for giving in to merchants’ strain by granting relaxations forward of Bakrid and stated it disclosed a “sorry state of affairs”.

A bench of justices R F Nariman and B R Gavai stated that the citizenary of India has been laid naked to the nationwide pandemic by grant of such relaxations by the Kerala authorities.

“We direct the Kerala authorities to provide heed to the Proper to Life enshrined underneath Article 21 of the Structure,” the bench stated.

The bench was listening to an software which raised the difficulty of relaxations granted by the Kerala authorities in view of the Bakrid pageant.

It was filed in a matter wherein the apex courtroom had final week taken suo motu cognisance of earlier media reviews on the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s choice to permit Kanwar Yatra amid the pandemic.


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