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2021 Supreme(SC) 237

D.Y.CHANDRACHUD, L.NAGESWARA RAO, S.RAVINDRA BHAT
IN RE: DISTRIBUTION OF ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES DURING PANDEMIC – Appellant
Versus
. – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, ASG Mr. Rajat Nair, Advocate, Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Advocate, Mr. Amit Mahajan, Advocate, Mr. Prashant Singh B, Advocate, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Advocate, Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makkar, Advocate, Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Maninder Singh, Sr. Advocate, Ms. Manisha Lavkumar, Sr. Advocate, Mr. A P Mayee, Advocate, Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Mahendra Singh Singhvi, Advocate, Gen. Mr. Amit Bhandari, Advocate, Mr. Sandeep Jha, Advocate, Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Suhaan Mukerji, Advocate, Mr. Vishal Prasad, Advocate, Ms. Deepeika Kalia, Advocate, Mr. Nikhil Parikshith, Advocate, Mr. Abhishek Manchanda, Advocate, Mr. Kapish Seth, Advocate, Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Advocate, Mr. Sayandeep Pahari, Advocate, M/S. Plr Chambers and Co. Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Rai, Sr. Advocate, Ms. Mahalakshmi Pavani, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Arijit Prasad, Advocate, Mr. Brijender Chahar, Sr. Advocate, Ms. Sonia Mathur, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Vikas Pahwa, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Meenesh Dubey, Advocate, Ms. Ritu Bhadwaj, Advocate, Mr. Anupam Mishra, Advocate, Ms. Nina Gupta, Advocate, Ms. K.V. Bharathi Upadhyaya, Advocate, Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, Advocate, Ms. Sasmita Tripathy, Advocate, Mr. Prashant Singh, Advocate, Ms. Prerna Kumari, Advocate, Ms. Seema Patnaha, Advocate, Ms. Nandani Gupta, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Kaushik, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Mehra, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Satyakam, Advocate, Mr. Gautam Narayan, Advocate, Ms. Asmita Singh, Advocate, Mr. Adithya Nair, Advocate, Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Advocate, Ms. Rajeshwari Hariharan, Advocate, Mr. R. Sathyanarayanan, Advocate, Ms. Nupur Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Mantika Haryani, Advocate, Ms. Astha Sharma, Advocate, Ms. Indira Jaising, Senior Advocate, Mr. Nipun Saxena, Advocate, Mr. Paras Nath Singh, Advocate, Mr. Umang Tyagi, Advocate, Ms. Serena Sharma, Advocate, Ms. Mantika Haryani, Advocate, Ms. Astha Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Amarjit Singh Chandiok, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Prashant Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Anindita Pujari, Advocate, Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, Advocate, Mr. S. Niranjan Reddy, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, Advocate, Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Advocate, Mr. Shaik Mohamad Haneef, Advocate, Mr. T. Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Advocate, Mr. Amitabh Sinha, Advocate, Mr. Shrey Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Yatin Oza, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Advocate, Ms. Dharita Purvish Malkan, Advocate, Ms. Deepa Gorasia, Advocate, Mr. Alok Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Neha Ambashtha, Advocate, Ms. Nandini Chhabra, Advocate, Ms. Bhavna Sarkar, Advocate, Mr. Ranjit Kumar, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Manish Kumar, Advocate, Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Advocate, Ms. Garima Jain, Advocate, Ms. Pallavi Sengupta, Advocate, Ms. Lakshmi Rao, Advocate, Mr. Aishwarya Choudhary, Advocate, Ms. Aakriti Priya, Advocate, Mr. Mohammed Shahrukh, Advocate, Mr. Prateek Yadav, Advocate, Mr. Devasish Garg, Applicant in Person Mr. Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, Applicant in Person Mr. Anil Grover, Sr. AAG Ms. Bansuri Swaraj, AAG Dr. Monika Gusain, Advocate, Mr. Rahul Chitnis Advocate, Mr. Sachin Patil, Advocate, Mr. Aaditya A. Pande, Advocate, Mr. Geo Joseph, Advocate, Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, Advocate, Mr. RajaRajeshwaran S., Advocate, Mr. S. C. Verma, Advocate, Gen. Chhattisgarh Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, Advocate, Ms. Simran Agarwal, Advocate, Mr. Vikram Sharma, Advocate, Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Advocate, Mrs. G. Indira, Advocate, Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Advocate, Mr. Shishir Deshpande, Advocate, Mr. Anurag Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Abhishek Kumar Srivastava, Advocate, Dr. A.P. Singh, Advocate, Mr. Sadashiv, Advocate, Mr. V.P. Singh, Advocate, Ms. Geeta Chauhan, Advocate, Ms. Richa Singh, Advocate, Mr. Sharwan Kumar Goyal, Advocate, Mr. Jai Gopal Saboo, Advocate, Mr. Purushainder Kaurav, Advocate, Gen. MP Mr. Pashupati Nath Razdan, Advocate, Mr. Sunny Choudhary Advocate, Mr. Pulkit Agarwal, Advocate, Mr. Sudhanshu Kaushesh, Advocate, Mr. K.P. Jayaram, Advocate, Mr. Astik Gupta, Advocate, Ms. Maitrayee Jagat Joshi, Advocate, Mr A.D.N. Rao, Advocate, Mr A. Venkatesh, Advocate, Mr Rahul Mishra, Advocate, Ms. Ananya Khandelwal, Advocate, Mr. V.N. Raghupathy, Advocate, Ms. Siddhesh Kotwal, Advocate, Ms. Manya Hasija, Advocate, Ms. Ana Upadhyay, Advocate, Mr. Nirnimesh Dube, Advocate, Mr. Pukhrambam Ramesh Kumar, Advocate, Ms. Anupama Ngangom, Advocate, Mr. Karun Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Sunny Choudhary, Advocate, Mrs. K. Enatoli Sema, Advocate, Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Advocate, Mr. Vivek Kolhi, Advocate, Gen Sikkim Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, Advocate, Mr. Amish Tandon, Advocate, Mr. Ayush Beotra, Advocate, Mr. Varun Tandon, Advocate, Mr. Dipin Tamang, Advocate, Mr. Uddhav Khanna, Advocate, Ms. Shafali Jain, Advocate, Mr. Amit Kumar, Advocate, Gen Meghalaya Mr. Avijit Mani Tripathi, Advocate, Mr. Shaurya Sahay, Advocate, Mr. Chetan Joshi, Advocate, Mr. G.M.Kawoosa, Advocate, Ms. Taruna Ardhendumauli Prasad, Advocate, Mr. Parth Awasthi, Advocate, Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, Advocate, Ms. Eliza Bar, Advocate, Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Abhinav Agrawal, Advocate, Ms. Garima Prashad, Sr. Advocate,/AAG Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, Advocate, Mr. Rakesh Malhotra, Advocate, Mr. Tungesh, Advocate, Mr. Shashank Deo Sudhi, applicant-in-person Mr. Chirag M. Shroff, Advocate, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Advocate, Mr. S. Debabrata Reddy, Advocate, Mr. Avnish Kumar Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Jishnu M.L., Advocate, Ms. Priyanka Prakash, Advocate, Ms. Beena Prakash, Advocate, Mr. G. Prakash, Advocate, Applicant-in-person Dr. Manish Singhvi, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, Advocate, Mr. Atul Nanda, Advocate, Gen, Punjab Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Advocate, Ms. Neha Sahai Bharihoke, Advocate, Mr. Siddhant Sharma, Advocate, Mr. Pashupathi Nath Razdan, Advocate, Mr. Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Advocate, Ms. Shikha Yadav, Advocate, Mr. Abhay Singh Yadav, Advocate, Mr. Sanjeev Malhotra, Advocate, Mr. Himanshu Chaubey, Advocate, Mr. Nitin Lonkar, Advocate, Ms. Sonali Suryawanshi, Advocate, Mr. Himanshu Chaubey, Advocate, Mr. Shibashish Misra, Advocate, Mr. Haris Beeran, Advocate, Mr. Mushtaq Salim, Advocate, Mr. Usman Ghani Khan, Advocate, Mr. Azhar Asees, Advocate, Ms. Pallavi Pratap, Advocate, Ms. Astha Sharma, Advocate, Ms. Manju Jetley, Advocate, Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, Sr. Advocate, Mr. Govind Manoharan, Advocate, Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Advocate, Ms. Aishwarya Murali, Advocate, Mr. Victor Das, Advocate, Ms. Ambika Mathur, Advocate, Mrs. Shally Bhasin, Advocate, Mr. Purvish Jitendra Malkan, Advocate, Dr. Ashwani Kumar, applicant in person Ms. Raushan Tara Jaswal Advocate, Ms. Shobha Gupta, Advocate, Ms. Medha Garg, Advocate, Mr. Anurag Tomar, Advocate, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, Advocate, Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Advocate, Ms. Sweena Nair, Advocate, Mr Arunabh Chowdhury, AAG Mr Krishnaraj Thaker, AAG Ms Pragya Baghel, Advocate, Mr Kumar Anurag Singh Advocate, Ms Pallavi Langar, Advocate, Mr. Devashish Bharuka, AoR Mrs. Jaya Bharuka, Advocate, Mr. Ravi Bharuka, Advocate, Ms. Sarvshree, Advocate, Mr. Justine George, Advocate, Ms. Srishti Agarwal, Advocate, Mr. Ankit Agarwal, Advocate, Ms. Taniya Bansal, Advocate, Mr. Manoj V George, Advocate, Mr. Ranjit Philip, Advocate, Ms. Palak Arora, Advocate, Mr. K. Panmei, Advocate, Ms. Shilpa Liza George, Advocate, Mr. Shuvodeep Roy, Advocate, Ms. Diksha Rai, Advocate, Ms. Ninmisha Menon, Advocate, Mr. Deepak A. Masih, Advocate, Ms. Manreet Kaur, Advocate, Ms.Kusum, Advocate, Mr. R. N. Keswani, Advocate, Mr. J. Sai Deepak, Advocate, Mr. Guruswamy Nataraj, Advocate, Mr. V. Shyamohan, Advocate, Mr. Surya Prakash, Advocate, For M/S KMNP LAW Advocate, Mr. Viplav Sharma, in-person for the Appearings Parties

ORDER

This order has been divided into the following sections to facilitate analysis:

    A. Introduction

    B. Outline of the Disaster Management Act

    C. Medical Infrastructure

      C.1 Submissions in UOI's Affidavits

      C.2 National Policy for Admission in Hospitals

    D. Oxygen allocation and availability

    E. Vaccines

      E.1 Vaccine capacity and disbursal

      E.2 Vaccine pricing

    F. Potentiality of Compulsory Licensing for vaccines and essential drugs

    G. Supply of Essential Drugs

    G.1 Submissions in the Central Government's Affidavits

    G.2 Recommendations

    G.3 Black Marketing

    H. Recommendations for augmenting healthcare workforce

    I. Epilogue

    J. Conclusion

A. Introduction

1. The genesis of this suo motu writ petition is in an order dated 22 April 2021. This Court took note of the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the country, following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notices were issued to the Union of India1["UOI", referred interchangeably as "Central Government"], the Governments of the States and Union Territories2 [Collectively referred as "State Government"], and to several petitioners who were before the Hi

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