The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a petition that challenged the Karnataka government's vaccine mandate for colleges and cited "wider national interest" as the reason.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant refused to interfere with the vaccine mandate, saying in the "wider national interest there are some matters which we should not be entertaining".
In July 2021, the Karnataka government had issued a notification saying that students, teachers, and non-teaching staff could only attent colleges after receiving at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Earlier, the Karnataka High Court had rejected a similar petition.
The Supreme Court on Monday said, 바카라We will not entertain this. Take your vaccines. In the wider national interest there are some matters which we should not be entertaining바카라.
The petitioner said before the apex court that his belief is in Ayurved and not allopathy 바카라 the coronavirus vaccine is not Ayurvedic 바카라 and he wears a mask and observes Covid-appropriate behaviour. He argued, 바카라There cannot be a vaccine mandate for attending the college,바카라
Dismissing the plea, the Supreme Court said, 바카라Sorry, we will not entertain this. Take your vaccination바카라.
With PTI inputs
