‘Are you a licensed chemist?’ Bombay High Court tears into celebs like Sonu Sood, hoarding medicines for PR functions

Bombay High Court’s Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice Kulkarni on Wednesday reprimanded the politicians and the celebrities for hoarding the medical provides and utilizing them to extract mileage and publicity. While going by means of the notes submitted by the Maharashtra authorities on celebrities and politicians procuring Covid-19 medicines, the courtroom remarked that it was involved for the lives of the residents.“We are concerned about the lives of our citizens. There cannot be any mileage, popularity or any other kind of mileage from this. We are deeply pained if needy patients are being deprived of it. This is a sorry state of affairs,” stated the Bench.[PC:IndiaTimes]Even after serving show-cause notices (on procuring Covid-19 reduction supplies) to Mumbai Congress MLA Zeeshan Siddique and the Sood Charity Foundation (actor Sonu Sood’s NGO) — the federal government didn’t obtain any response from them and the courtroom pulled each, in addition to the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities for its lackadaisical angle.“We aren’t impressed. By now you should have had recorded their (celebrities) statements. They don’t have any license,” stated the Bench.The bench added that the drug retailer or wholesaler would take duty as he’s a license holder, however on this case, these individuals don’t have any license, so who will take the assure.“And why 4 days you have given to them? There should have been a report. You’ve only issued show-cause notice, we said place a report on record. You should have recorded their statements. We are not happy with this,” the bench remarked, in response to a report by Live Law.The courtroom tried to know the place the third events have been receiving the medicines from when solely the Centre had the authority to allocate the medicines, whereas the state was supposed to gather them.“Who will guarantee that drugs being given by these personalities are of proper quality,” requested the courtroom and additional added that for these medicines, “Allocation is by Union, the collection is by state, where is the window of collection by these personalities? That is our anxiety.”Read More: Oxygen black marketer Navneet Kalra will get arrested regardless of a Congress chief’s defence in CourtThe latest Navneet Kalra case in Delhi the place the politically linked restauranter was caught with over 500 oxygen concentrators has opened the pandora field of such circumstances. The celebs, who had been accumulating PR factors by purportedly serving the frequent public, have come beneath the scanner for the procurement of medicines.The ‘toolkit exposé’ of Congress has additional dented the marketing campaign as it’s being believed that the opposition politicians created the dearth in provide by hoarding the medicines and later releasing them amid a lot social media fanfare.