Lawyer seeks action against China on Covid, gets SC rap

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea of a lawyer seeking it’s intervention to direct the Centre to take action against China for allegedly using Covid-19 as a biological weapon and intentionally spreading it across the world.

A bench of Justices

Sanjay Kishan Kaul

and M M Sundresh slammed the lawyer, who appeared in person before the court, for filing such a petition and said that the purpose of his petition was to get his name published in newspaper and hoped that media would not oblige him

The petitioner insisted that many international studies blamed China for the Covid-19 infection and his case was not baseless but based on those findings. The bench, however, said that it was not for the court to get into such matters and it was for the elected government to take any action if it needed to be taken.