PIL on sale of fake COVID-19 vaccines: SC refuses to entertain plea
The petitioner decided to withdraw the plea which was filed before the rollout of vaccines and had referred to the statement of Secretary General of INTERPOL to the effect that criminal organizations have been planning to infiltrate or disrupt supply chains.;
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre for framing "strict" guidelines to prevent any chance of sale of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said that though it understood the "motivation" behind filing of the PIL, it cannot pass general directions.
"We understand your motivation but you file a concrete case. We cannot pass general directions. We are not the legislature," the bench told lawyer Vishal Tiwari who filed the plea in his personal capacity.
"If you (lawyer) want to persue this issue, you make out a case with concrete facts. We will allow you to withdraw with the liberty to file it afresh," the bench said in the hearing conducted through video-conferencing.
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