Coronavirus | We are in process of vaccinating all eligible folks, J&K tells HC
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We are alive to the truth that jail inmates too have the best to life, A-G tells Bench
The Jammu and Kashmir administration is alive to the truth that jail inmates too have the best to life and the Union Territory is in the process of vaccinating all eligible folks, State Advocate General D.C. Raina instructed the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Friday.
Mr. Raina made these remarks earlier than the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Rajnesh Oswal, which heard a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition on making vaccines accessible to all prisoners.
“We are conscious of the fact that all prisoners have the right to life. We [the Jammu and Kashmir administration] are in a process that everybody should be vaccinated,” the A-G stated.
The Bench disposed of the petition and requested the petitioner to make a proper illustration to the Director General, Prisons, on vaccination of jail inmates.
Lawyer Syed Musaib, who filed the plea, stated the prisoners have been being denied vaccines and entry to necessary Co-WIN utility for registration.
“Undertrials, convicts and detainees, though eligible for vaccination, have so far been denied access to the vaccine and were yet to get access to the mandatory Internet-based application,” he stated.
According to officers, no inmate has examined optimistic for Coronavirus in the 13 main prisons of the Union Territory.
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