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Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, July 2: Principal Sessions Judge Kulgam Tahir Khurshid Raina today while dismissing the pre-arrest bail application of Ghulam. Jeelani Rather who halted the vaccination drive held that no concession of anticipatory bail to the accused involved in the hate campaign against vaccination drive.
Principal Sessions Judge Kulgam observed that as rightly opined by WHO “but it’s not vaccines that will stop the pandemic, its vaccination”. It is further said “safe and effective vaccines are a game - changing tool; but for the foreseeable future we must continue wearing masks, cleaning our hands, ensuring good ventilation indoors, physically distancing and avoiding crowds.”
The Court observed that it is very unfortunate that while on one hand, the government is making painstaking efforts to ensure the safety of the people against the deadly virus by vaccination drives, the rumor mongers like the petitioner are acting as stumbling black in this lofty endeavor of the government. By spreading rumors and disinformation campaign against the vaccination, the petitioner and their ilk are creating lot of fear psychosis and confusion among the general public about the vaccination.
Court while dismissing the bail application further observed that rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots’. More so, such haters do not deserve concession of anticipatory bail, rather their free movement and free speech is a threat to the society at large which requires to be circumscribed in accordance with the law for the general good of the society. |
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