Form Policy To Avoid Fake Vaccination Drive: Court To Maharashtra, Mumbai Civic Body

The bench took cognisance of news reports of one such incident at a housing society in Mumbai's Kandivali area where residents were inoculated with fake anti-COVID vaccines.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to form a policy on an "SOS basis" to avoid incidents of frauds or fake vaccination drives. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni took cognisance of news reports of one such incident at a housing society in Mumbai's Kandivali area where residents were inoculated with fake anti-COVID vaccines at a camp organised by the housing society. The court said the state or municipal authorities must be a part of, or have information of all such private vaccination camps being organised by housing societies and offices to ensure citizens do not suffer. The bench also directed the state government to submit the progress report on the police investigation being carried out into the incident by June 24. "There has to be a policy. Some intimation or communication among housing societies, hospitals, civic body, so that such incidents do not happen," the HC said. "What is the most unfortunate thing here is that when the whole humanity is suffering, some people are still playing frauds of this kind," it said.