{"id":229863,"date":"2020-05-20T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T04:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=229863"},"modified":"2023-10-03T17:29:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T11:59:56","slug":"all-hc-pil-filed-to-ensure-compliance-of-mohfw-advisory-on-prohibition-of-use-of-sodium-hypochlorite-spray-on-human-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/20\/all-hc-pil-filed-to-ensure-compliance-of-mohfw-advisory-on-prohibition-of-use-of-sodium-hypochlorite-spray-on-human-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"All HC | PIL filed to ensure compliance of MoHFW advisory on prohibition of use of Sodium Hypochlorite spray on human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Allahabad High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>A Division Bench of Anil Kumar and Saurabh Lavania, JJ. addressing a concerned with regard to spraying of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Sodium Hypochlorite on human beings, <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">State of U.P. sought time to file counter-affidavit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner sought relief for the following through the present petition:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Issue a writ, order or command in the nature of Mandamus thereby directing the OP 1 to ensure compliance of advisory issued by MoHFW regarding <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>prohibition of <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Sodium Hypochlorite spray on human beings or any other living being.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner&#8217;s counsel relied on following with regard to use of <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Sodium Hypochlorite:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Wear protective gloves\/ protective clothing\/eye protection\/ face protection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In case of ingestion, Inhalation, skin contact or eye contact, Poison Centre or doctor\/physician to be immediately contacted.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>On contact of Sodium Hypochlorite <\/em><em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">person can suffer burns by all exposure routes.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;it is evident that from no stretch of imagination Sodium Hypochlorite can be used in any form for spraying it over a human being or any animal for any purpose, be it whatsoever.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has been stated that on 23rd March, 2020 a cleaning staff lost his lie in U.P. while spraying the disinfectant in order to prevent coronavirus as he was spraying the disinfectant without any proper preventive kit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 29th March, 2020, <em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">at District Bareli several persons comprising of men, women , old person and young children were subjected to spraying Sodium Hypochlorite in the name of killing corona virus which might be present in their body. It is also necessary to point out that the aforesaid inhuman act of spraying Sodium Hypochlorite caused severe panic and ill effects over the body of the men, women, old persons and children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Again an incident has been highlighted wherein several labor were subjected to <\/em><em style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">spray of sodium Hypochlorite at Charbagh Lucknow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohfw.gov.in\/pdf\/AdvisoryagainstsprayingofdisinfectantonpeopleforCOVID19managementFinal.pdf\">Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has also in its guidelines issued that spraying of individuals or groups is\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NOT RECOMMENDED<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>under any circumstances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the said matter, respondents counsel sought 4 weeks time to file a counter-affidavit. 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State of U.P., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/4Su9lG4h\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine All 593<\/b><\/a> , decided on 19-05-2020]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Anil Kumar and Saurabh Lavania, JJ. addressing a concerned with regard to spraying of Sodium Hypochlorite 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