Karnataka HC Asks Centre, Bengaluru Metro To Clarify On Mandatory Use Of Aarogya Setu
Live LawThe Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the Union Government to make a statement before the court to clarify whether the Ministry of Health and Family welfare and Department of Personnel and Training have made use of Aarogya Setu application compulsory. A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice M Nagaprasanna, while allowing the amendment application filed by petitioner Anivar A Aravind, said "The submission is that use of Aarogya Setu application has been made compulsory by Dept of Personnel and Training and that the SOP dated June 4 of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare makes it mandatory for employees working in offices to install and use the Aarogya setu app. In addition to this, the court has also allowed the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited to be impleaded in the petition and directed it to make a statement clarifying whether use of Aarogya Setu application will be made mandatory as a condition precedent for boarding metro rail as and when functioning of metro rail starts. argued that BMRCL has made it mandatory to install and use Aarogya Setu application by Metro users on smartphones, when utility begins.