Bombay HC Issues Notice To Bill Gates, Serum Institute, DGCI, Others Over Plea On Alleged Vaccine Death
Bombay HC Issues Notice To Bill Gates, Serum Institute, DGCI, Others Over Plea On Alleged ‘Vaccine Death’
Bill Gates, Serum Institute of India (SII), Drug Controller of India (DGCI) and other were sent notices by the Bombay High Court to respond to a plea filed by a man over his daughter's alleged 'vaccine death'.
Petitioner Dilip Lunwat made Microsoft founder Bill Gates - whose foundation had partnered with the SII a respondent to the plea. (File Photo)
New Delhi: Bill Gates, Serum Institute of India (SII), Drug Controller of India (DGCI), Maharashtra government and the Union government were issued notices by the Bombay High Court to respond to a petition filed by a man over his daughter’s alleged ‘vaccine death’. The man, in his plea, had blamed Covishield for his daughter’s death and demanded a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the Indian vaccine-maker.
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Petitioner Dilip Lunwat made Microsoft founder Bill Gates – whose foundation had partnered with the SII, the Union government, Maharashtra government and Drug Controller of India respondents to the plea, according to a report by news agency PTI.
A division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and Madhav Jamdar on August 26 issued a notice to all the respondents in the petition. The matter has been posted for hearing on November 17.
In his petition, the man claimed that his daughter Snehal Lunawat, a medical student, was compelled to take the anti-coronavirus Covishield vaccine made by the SII at her college in Nashik on January 28, 2021, as she was a health worker.
A few days later, Snehal suffered severe headache and vomiting and was taken to a hospital where doctors said she had bleeding in her brain, the petition said. Snehal died on March 1, 2021, and side-effects of the vaccine were the cause, the plea claimed.
The petition relied on a report submitted by the Central government’s Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) committee on October 2, 2021, which purportedly admitted that his daughter’s death was due to the side-effects of Covishield. The petition demanded a compensation of Rs 1,000 crore from the SII.
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