{"id":182477,"date":"2022-05-03T21:18:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=182477"},"modified":"2022-05-03T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T15:48:28","slug":"no-one-can-be-forced-to-get-vaccinatedsupreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-one-can-be-forced-to-get-vaccinatedsupreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"No one can be forced to get vaccinated:Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has said that no person can be forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and asked the Union government to make public the effects of such immunization.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What was the case about?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A petition was filed in the Supreme Court <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">seeking disclosure of vaccine trial data and a stay on vaccine mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What was the judgement of the <\/b><b>Supreme Court?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h6><b>No Forced Vaccination<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court upheld the current vaccination policy of the Indian Government. However, the court <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">made it clear that vaccines cannot be made mandatory, and no person can be forced to get vaccinated against his or her wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is because the right<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to bodily integrity of a person under Article 21 of the Constitution includes the right to refuse vaccination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, when the issue extended to \u201ccommunitarian health\u201d, the government was indeed entitled to regulate issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the Courts also had the authority to review whether the government\u2019s interventions met the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-is-doctrine-of-proportionality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>\u201cthree-fold\u201d requirements<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as expounded in the Constitution Bench judgment in K.S. Puttaswamy case (the judgment which upheld the right of privacy as a constitutional right under Article 21).<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Set up the virtual public platform<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The court directed the Centre to set up a virtual public platform at the earliest to facilitate individuals and private doctors to report adverse vaccine events without compromising their privacy.<\/p>\n<h6 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Vaccine Trial Data be made public<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The court directed the Union government to ensure that the findings and results of the relevant phases of clinical trials of vaccines already approved by the regulating authorities for administration to children be made public at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cNo one can be forced to get vaccinated:Supreme Court\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span><b> 3rd May 2022. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cCovid vaccination can&#8217;t be forced, made mandatory: SC\u201d<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> TOI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span><b> 2nd May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cNo individual can be forced to undergo covid vaccination: SC\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Livemint<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on<\/span><b> 3rd May 2022.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? The Supreme Court has said that no person can be forced to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and asked the Union government to make public the effects of such immunization. What was the case about? A petition was filed in the Supreme Court seeking disclosure of vaccine trial data and a stay&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/no-one-can-be-forced-to-get-vaccinatedsupreme-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No one can be forced to get vaccinated:Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,9],"tags":[10501,10498,10496],"class_list":["post-182477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-public","tag-live-mint","tag-the-hindu","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704869383},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}