Indians Suffering for Dead Loved Ones in Epidemic April 25, 2021
On April 30, a full bench of the Supreme Court of India declared that any citizen has the right to send a message on social media about the need for medical resources or express dissatisfaction with the government’s inability to control the epidemic, and that if the government outlaws such behavior, it will be considered harassment of citizens and contempt of court.
Many Indian netizens have recently sought help through social media, seeking oxygen to save the lives of their diagnosed loved ones, only to be charged by the BJP-dominated northern government and police with “national security laws” and “spreading false information,” among other things. The legal action.
According to the Central News Agency (CNA), the Modi government’s opening of election campaigns and large religious events, and its failure to immediately address the lack of medical resources alerted by hospitals around the country, has been criticized as one of the reasons why the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic has turned into a tsunami. This has led to a rise in the epidemic in India, a collapse of the healthcare system, a shortage of medical supplies, and the death of many patients. Some Indian netizens have issued the hashtag #ResignModi on social media, demanding that Prime Minister Modi resign and take responsibility for the out-of-control epidemic, which was blocked and deleted from social media. The Modi government is rumored to have asked for the removal of these “inflammatory statements” under the Information Technology Act, but India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology denied yesterday that it had ordered the removal of these statements, saying that Facebook had clarified that they were “mistakenly deleted”.
On the issue of people’s freedom of expression being suppressed by the Indian government, a three-judge panel of the Indian Supreme Court made a clear pronouncement on April 30 when it sat on the issue of Wuhan pneumonia.
The Supreme Court of India, sitting as a full bench, said during the hearing of Wuhan pneumonia-related issues that citizens expressing their grievances on social media or the Internet cannot be accused of “false and erroneous messages”; as citizens and judges, they do not want the government to ban and suppress As citizens and judges, we don’t want (the government) to suppress and clamp down on the messages of the people and let their voices be heard.
The Full Bench of the Supreme Court of India emphasized that people who send messages about the need for hospital beds and oxygen and are harassed (by the government and police) will be held in contempt of court. It asked that “this strong message reach the provinces, municipalities and police stations.
Northern Province Governor Yogi Adityanath, in a recent video press conference, declared that there is no lack of oxygen supply in any public or private hospital in Northern Province, so authorities will likely take action under national security laws against people who spread rumors on the Internet.
Attiyanath then ordered the police to “monitor” people who spread “rumors” about the lack of oxygen, and to properly investigate such cases. Later, police in the northern province of Amethi filed a case against a boy for “spreading false information” after he tweeted an appeal for oxygen to save his grandfather’s life.
India will open up vaccination for adults over 18 years of age from tomorrow. The Supreme Court of India, sitting as a full bench, questioned the pricing of vaccines, saying how could the poor afford to get vaccinated? It asked the government to follow the national immunization model that has been in place since India’s independence.
The Full Bench of the Supreme Court said that the central government is responsible for New Delhi and questioned the impact of not only New Delhi, but also Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, where there is no full supply of oxygen. How much oxygen can the central government supply?
The representative of the central government of India declared to the collegium that the supply of oxygen is mainly a logistical transportation problem, which will soon be alleviated.
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