{"id":47438,"date":"2018-04-26T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=47438"},"modified":"2018-04-26T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T09:37:39","slug":"delhi-hc-directs-centre-procure-pzp-vaccine-earliest-monkey-sterilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/breaking-news-articles\/delhi-hc-directs-centre-procure-pzp-vaccine-earliest-monkey-sterilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi HC directs Centre to procure PZP vaccine at the earliest for monkey sterilisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/delhi-high-court\">Delhi High Court<\/a> on Thursday (April 26) directed the Centre to take all possible steps to secure the custom clearance for procuring the PZP vaccine used for sterilisation of monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Harishankar said that the steps should be taken within<br \/>\n15 days so that the vaccine should be brought at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s direction came when it was informed by the Centre that the PZP vaccine is being imported from United States for research and development.<\/p>\n<p>Counsel appearing for the Centre, informed the bench that this was the only vaccine which can be imported. But the drug is stuck at the customs office due to the absence of some clarifications.<\/p>\n<p>The bench was hearing a PIL filed by advocate Meera Bhatia, seeking directions to the authorities to take steps to deal with the menace of monkeys and dogs in South Delhi Deer park, Hauz Khas.<\/p>\n<p>During the proceedings, the bench also expressed displeasure that the customs department was under the Centre and despite that clearance to the drug was not being obtained from the customs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is writ of 2001 and it has been almost 20 years but no concrete action has been taken. You are the Centre and the customs department is under you. Why can\u2019t you get the clearance,\u201d the bench said.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to the bench, the Centre\u2019s counsel said that some clarifications are required and it would be obtained at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>The court accepted counsel\u2019s submission and fixed May 24 as the next date of hearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>\u2014India Legal Bureau <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday (April 26) directed the Centre to take all possible steps to secure the custom clearance for procuring the PZP vaccine used for sterilisation of monkeys. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Harishankar said that the steps should be taken within 15 days so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[756],"tags":[1377,41445,41444],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Delhi-HC-directs-Centre-to-procure-PZP-vaccine-at-the-earliest-for-monkey-sterilisation.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}