Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Vol. 14 No. 4 (2020): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

COVID-19: Analysing the Legal Nuances of the Lockdown Order

Swati Mohapatra1 , Yogesh Mishra2 , Lipsa Dash3 (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Oct 2020

Abstract

COVID-19 has posed a serious challenge to countries all over the world taking lives, destroying livelihood,bringing down the economies to the ground. The question now is not how soon it will pass away but howeffective will it be dealt with it. Nearly 3/4th of the countries which are affected do not have sufficientpreparedness to deal with it. It may be the lacking of a Mitigation Plan, or maybe the lack of an effectivehealth care system, or maybe the lacking of an efficient R&D, or it may also be the lack of an efficient farsighted Leader. India has been under the shadow of a few of many problems. The government of the countryrelies on the Laws to bring out a Preventive Mechanism to deal with the outburst of cases and other effects.One of which is the LockDown order which has been held as one of the first, earliest, and strictest in theWorld. The paper seeks to analyze critically the legal backing of such Lock Down, testing the nuances of iton the Constitutional Touchstone

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