Pandemic's seriousness: HC seeks deposit

The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked a lawyer to deposit Rs 1 lakh as a security deposit, saying that only then it would hear his petition which contends that restrictions owing to coronavirus are not need. A division bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni said the petition, which seeks invalidation of the Epidemic Diseases Act, is frivolous and would waste the court's time.

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