In an awkward but hilarious incident, Congress interimChief Sonia Gandhi’s voice was heard during a Supreme Court hearing. Thehearing was regarding the Coronavirus vaccine and Sonia Gandhi was also heardtalking about Coronavirus itself.
The hearing in the topmost court was about to begin.Kapil Sibal called Solicitor General Tushar Mehta and asked the control room tounmute him. After this Tushar Mehta requested to unmute P Chidambaram. Then thevoice of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was heard and everyone started laughingon hearing the voice, after which Kapil Sibal asked to stop it.
Sonia Gandhi was talking about Covid19 in her speechgoing on CWC.
The hearing was held virtually due to the coronaviruspandemic. It began at 11 am but there were technical glitches and the judgeswent off-screen. Later the bench of Justice DY Chandrachud, LN Rao, and SRavindra Bhat adjourned the hearing to Thursday. The court said, “Our server isdown today. We judges had a discussion among ourselves and have decided to takeup the matter on Thursday.”
Earlier, the Supreme Court had questioned the centerabout its vaccination policy and other measures they are planning to fight thenovel coronavirus. Responding to these questions the Center had filed anaffidavit of 218 pages. In the affidavit, the Centre defended its vaccinationpolicy.
“In the context of a global pandemic, where response andstrategy of the nation are completely driven by expert medical and scientificopinion, there is little room for judicial interference. Any overzealous,though well-meaning, judicial intervention may lead to unforeseen andunintended consequences,” said the center.
On different prices of vaccines, the center furtheradded, “Pricing of vaccines is not only reasonable but uniform across thecountry after government persuasion with two vaccine companies.