JUDGMENT

S. Manikumar, CJ Alleging failure on the part of respondents in ensuring proper implementation of the guidelines/notification/directives/ advisories, notified/issued from time-to-time, for protection of the public at large from COVID-19 pandemic, W.P.(C)

No.16614 of 2021 is filed for the following reliefs:

“(i) Issue a writ of mandamus or any appropriate writ or direction or an order to the State of Kerala, Represented by Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram, (respondent No.2), and/or other appropriate authorities, to amend the guidelines issued by the 2nd respondent dated 4.8.2021 in G.O.(Rt.) No. 567/2021/DMD, inter alia, removing the following paragraphs:

(4) a person (workers/visitor) can enter shops, markets, banks, public and private offices, financial institutions, industries, factories, open tourist places, and all other institutions only if he/she is vaccinated with the first dose of Covid vaccine at least two weeks before or shall have an RTPCR negative certificate taken within 72 hours or he/she has been recovered from Covid 19 illness a month before.”

(ii) To issue a writ of mandamus or any appropriate writ or direction or o