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New Delhi: Parents of two girls who allegedly died due to adverse effects after receiving Covid-19 vaccination have welcomed the Supreme Court's move seeking information from the government over the deaths of the girls.
Parents of 18-year-old Rithaika from Hyderabad and Karunya, 20, from Coimbatore had filed a petition in the top court last year, alleging that the girls died due to severe complications a few days after they received their first shot of vaccination.
"The SC has admitted our petition and the legal process of getting justice to our daughters' death has begun," said Venugopalan Govindan, Karunya's father. "These two lives lost are just representatives of countless other lives which have been lost similarly. I have hope that this will eventually result in necessary reparative measures and, more importantly, paving way for setting such processes in the country that will prevent the recurrence of such events in future."
While issuing the notice to the government on Monday, a Supreme Court bench said, "Though ordinarily we would have considered relegating the petitioners to the appropriate regular remedies because the matter might involve determination of certain basic questions of fact so as to bring it within the four corners of a case of medical negligence, but, having regard to the post-mortem report filed with the additional documents, the submissions that the government has not responded to the petitioners' representations, and the nature of reliefs claimed, it appears appropriate to call upon the respondents to reply. Hence, issue notice."
Parents of 18-year-old Rithaika from Hyderabad and Karunya, 20, from Coimbatore had filed a petition in the top court last year, alleging that the girls died due to severe complications a few days after they received their first shot of vaccination.
"The SC has admitted our petition and the legal process of getting justice to our daughters' death has begun," said Venugopalan Govindan, Karunya's father. "These two lives lost are just representatives of countless other lives which have been lost similarly. I have hope that this will eventually result in necessary reparative measures and, more importantly, paving way for setting such processes in the country that will prevent the recurrence of such events in future."
While issuing the notice to the government on Monday, a Supreme Court bench said, "Though ordinarily we would have considered relegating the petitioners to the appropriate regular remedies because the matter might involve determination of certain basic questions of fact so as to bring it within the four corners of a case of medical negligence, but, having regard to the post-mortem report filed with the additional documents, the submissions that the government has not responded to the petitioners' representations, and the nature of reliefs claimed, it appears appropriate to call upon the respondents to reply. Hence, issue notice."
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