Plea to vaccinate the homeless

A public curiosity litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court searching for a route to the State authorities and Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) to vaccinate the homeless towards COVID-19 with out insisting upon manufacturing of Aadhaar or another id card. The litigant mentioned it might not be truthful to anticipate the road dwellers to be in possession of id playing cards although they had been the most weak to the virus.

When the case was listed earlier than the Division Bench of Justices G. Jayachandran and C. Saravanan on Wednesday, Advocate General R. Shunmugasundaram mentioned the authorities had already taken steps to vaccinate the destitute and mentioned that the GCC had been doing it zone-wise. He mentioned the particulars relating to the vaccination drive undertaken to date had been out there with him and sought a while to file them in the type of a report.

Since the case was associated to the combat towards COVID-19 and all such instances had been anticipated to be listed earlier than the first Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy as per a round issued by the High Court Registry, the Bench led by Justice Jayachandran directed the Registry to record this case too earlier than the first Bench and requested the A-G to file the report as and when the matter will get listed.