Anand Kumar vs State of U.P. - 2025 Supreme(All) 2798

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2025 Supreme(All) 2798

IN THE HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD
Hon'ble J.J. Munir,J.
Anand Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of U.P. – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Rajesh Yadav, Ruchi Mishra
For the Respondent: C.S.C.,Jagannath Maurya

JUDGMENT :

J.J. Munir, J.

1. The Covid-19 pandemic, that ravaged humanity during the years 2020-21 across the world, is unprecedented for its destruction, death, loss of livelihood, business and many such things in the history of mankind. While it brought on immense tragedy for those who lived on to see another day, the misery was sought to be alleviated by the Government of India and the State Governments, lending a helping hand to support the survivors. Whatever could serve as measures of relief were taken by Governments to bring life back on track for various classes of people. There were certain classes of men and women, according to their profession, who had to work for others by the nature of their calling, even when most others, for the sake of dear life, were virtually confined to their homes due to lock-downs. These classes of persons, who had to still work on for humanity's sake, comprised not only of a certain category of government servants, but also employees of corporations, the private sector and the self-employed. They shared a common genre to their calling, whosoever was their employer. They were generally doctors, health workers other than doctors, policemen, and, p