HC Rings Alarm Bells on Covid TN Scenarios
The order was passed when it dismissed a plea by Thondan Subramani, a lawyer who was looking for directions to ECI to follow the Covid protocol during the entire selection process.
“brace for the worst scenario,” warned Madras High Court on Friday, while directing Indian election commissions to ensure strict compliance with the Covid protocol, even in the polls. The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy also directed the Tamil Nadu government to help ECI in ensuring safety measures.
The order was passed when it dismissed a request transferred by Thondan Subramani, a lawyer who was looking for directions to ECI to follow the Covid protocol during the entire selection process.
“All political parties and candidates must use the level of responsibility and ensure that the meeting and campaign meeting, it is even limited to the private group, maintaining the Covid-19 protocol,” said the court.
The use of masks is mandatory, and violators will be fined. Distance norms must also be maintained at any time and steps such as sanitization must be used frequently, the judges added.
Political parties and leaders have attracted a large crowd to their demonstrations throughout the country, even when the number of Covid cases is on the swing up. On Friday, as many as 18 people working at the National Skill Training Institute in Guindy have tested positively Covid.
1,958 new cases recorded in TN
11,318 active cases in the state
