The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 2 June, termed the Centre’s “Liberalised Vaccination Policy” as “arbitrary and irrational”, as it does not provide free vaccination for those in the age group of 18 to 44 years.
The observation was made by a Bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao, and S Ravindra Bhat in the suo moto case on COVID related issues.
The top court noted that with the experience of the second wave it has learned that COVID is capable of mutation and poses a threat to the 18 to 44 age group as well, seeing how they have suffered serious symptoms of the infection and in many cases, have died.