New Delhi: Six former bureaucrats have approached the Supreme Court seeking an independent enquiry against Central government's 'gross mismanagement' of Covid-19 pandemic in the country. It warranted the appointment of a Commission under Section 3 of the Commission of Inquiry Act, they pleaded.
K P Fabian and others have filed a petition through advocate Prashant Bhushan. The bureaucrats contended that the response of the government to the pandemic and the deleterious impact of it on the lives and livelihoods of citizens of the country was a matter of public importance. Bhushan is also a part of various pleas against the government on issues pertaining to COVID. The matter has been listed for hearing on 14th August.
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The group stated that a commission headed by a former Supreme Court judge and comprising experts from fields of medical science, epidemiology, public health, law, and social sciences should be constituted to conduct an independent inquiry into issues of failure. It is of utmost importance that early measures for the containment of the disease must be taken. Lockdown failure to contain transmission of the disease and misery wrought upon ordinary citizens, owing to unplanned and sudden nature of lockdown must be looked upon.
