A petition in the Bombay High Court filed by the father of a medical student seeks Rs 1,000 crore compensation alleging that his daughter died due to side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The respondents in the plea include Covishield vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, its partner Bill Gates along with State and Union Authorities.
Petitioner Dilip Lunawat claims that his daughter Snehal Lunawat, a senior lecturer at a Medical College in Nagpur took the Covishield vaccine on January 28, 2021 and died due to it's side effects a month later on March 1, 2021.
Lunawat has contended that his daughter was compelled to take the vaccine as she was a health worker and was given a false narrative by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) that vaccines are safe.
According to the petition, the Central government's After Effects FolIowing Immunisation (AEFI) Committee, on October 2, 2021, accepted his daughter's death was a result of the side effects of the vaccine.
The petition seeks a declaration that the state authorities are responsible for causing the petitioner's daughter's death by false narratives and to compensate her.
"The Petitioner lost her elder daughter, who was just 33 years old. His loss can neither be explained in words nor can be compensated in terms of money. Only some sort of succor can be done by awarding compensation," the plea states, seeking Rs 1,000 crore as interim compensation to the family.
The state authorities should be given the liberty to recover the compensation amount from the responsible officials and Serum Institute, Pune, who is the manufacturer of Covishield vaccine, the plea adds.
The petition states that state authorities should take proper steps to stop further deaths of citizen and publish the side effects of vaccines by following the rules of Universal Declaration on Bioethics & Human Rights.
Declare the petitioners daughter as a martyr and open a dedicated research institute in India under the name of Dr. Snehal Lunawat, the petition states.
To direct the Union of India to take action against Google, YouTube etc for "suppressing" correct data on death due to vaccination.
The petitioner has accused the Serum Institute of India of giving a false response that no side effects as mentioned by the petitioner were found during clinical trials of the vaccine.
The plea further says that the Union of India, in its affidavit dated November 28, 2021 before the Supreme Court in the case of Jacob Puliyel Vs. Union of India had made it clear that as per Indian law there was no immunity available to the vaccine manufacturing companies.
In response to an email written by the petitioner to Serum Institute, they said,
"...In any large immunization campaign such coincidental events and deaths do occur. They are not caused by the vaccine but are actually a part of background rate of events.
As informed to you earlier, Covishield do not cause thrombosis or any other cardiovascular events. The known adverse reactions are injection site reactions, fever, headache, malaise, fatigue, etc. The majority of adverse reactions are mild to moderate in severity and usually resolved within a few days of vaccination."
According to the petitioner his daughter took her first dose of Covishield vaccine on 28th January 2021 in Nasik. On 5th of February she had a headache. She showed it to the doctors who diagnosed a mild migraine for which she took medicines and felt better. She then travelled to Gurgaon on 6th February afternoon and on the midnight of 7th Feb at 2am, she had multiple episodes of vomiting till morning Sam with fatigue.
She was rushed to nearby Aryan hospital. Gurgaon where they said there might be bleeding in the brain and suspected venous sinus thrombosis. As there was no neurosurgeon available she was rushed another hospital.
"She had bleeding, clot formation with low platelets which are all signs of the same condition linked to Astra Zeneca and Covishield vaccine in foreign countries and few in India now. Doctors detected venous sinus thrombosis which was followed by intracranial brain hemorrhage. They performed craniotomy and clot removal surgery. Thereafter she was on a ventilator for 14 days in Gurgaon but her condition did not improve," the plea mentions.
