The Bombay Bar Association (BBA) has urged the state advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni's intervention with the Maharashtra Government to treat Bombay High Court's legal community as frontline workers and vaccinate them on a priority basis.
BBA is one of the oldest bar associations in the country. On Saturday, March 6, its new president, advocate Nitin Thakker, emailed Kumbhakoni his request.
The letter states that the Bombay High Court has been functioning 'tirelessly' even during the pandemic and from November the court has begun physical hearings, as well.
BBA also said that, with a surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the city, it has become important to protect all stakeholders that actively participate in the functioning of the Bombay HC.
Thakker cited the example of the Delhi High Court, which registered a suo motu PIL on March 3, to vaccinate judges, court staff and lawyers, treating them as "frontline workers", without limitations of their age or physical condition.
Also, two advocates, Vaishnavi Gholave (23) from Raigad and Yogesh Morbale (29) from Kolhapur through advocate V P Sangvikar, filed a PIL in Bombay high court to seek priority status for members of legal fraternity to get Covid vaccine shots and to declare them ‘frontline workers’.
Moreover, BBA has further sought for a vaccination centre to be set up in the HC premises. The letter requests the AG to use his good offices with the State.
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