Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 503 · Decided 2 May 2022
Jacob Puliyel v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 503 · [2022] 3 S.C.R. 471
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 607/2021
- Decided
- 2 May 2022
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Public health - COVID-19 pandemic - Vaccines and other public health measures - Fundamental rights of individuals - Bodily integrity and personal autonomy of an individual - Held: Bodily integrity is protected under Art. 21 of the Constitution and no individual can be Further, personal autonomy of an individual, which is a recognised facet of the protections guaranteed under Art. 21, encompasses the right to refuse to undergo any medical treatment in the sphere of individual health - However, in the interest of protection of communitarian health, the
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