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The Karnataka High Court rejected the petition challenging ‘The Karnataka Epidemic Disease Ordinance, 2020’, promulgated to protect officials engaged in the Covid-19 duty from any physical harm. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice H P Sandesh, said “without going into the question whether Central Ordinance will apply to the state of

By Rishabh Kumar Mishra of ICFAI Law School, Dehradun, 2016-21 Batch Epidemic Disease act is a two page law that has remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years of its existence. We can’t control pandemic like 2020 by using this British era law. 100 years ago this act was passed by British government to