{"id":22659,"date":"2026-09-10T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=22659"},"modified":"2026-09-10T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T21:54:29","slug":"sc-junks-anti-hpv-vax-pil-says-plea-has-ulterior-motive-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=22659","title":{"rendered":"SC junks anti-HPV vax PIL, says plea has ulterior motive | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134031262,imgsize-759858,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/supreme-court.jpg\" alt=\"SC junks anti-HPV vax PIL, says plea has ulterior motive\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a PIL by a doctors&#8217; association challenging India&#8217;s nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for adolescent girls to protect them against cervical cancer and said it did not behove medical practitioners to take an anti-vaccine stance.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Though the NGO&#8217;s counsel clarified at the outset that the PIL was not against the vaccination programme but for putting in place mechanisms to take care of adverse reactions and compensation, a bench led by CJI Surya Kant said, &#8220;The PIL is definitely anti-vaccine.&#8221; It gave the option to the lawyer to withdraw or invite adverse comments.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>When the counsel continued to argue for prior informed consent of parents of the target population of adolescent girls, the bench said the PIL appeared to have been filed with an ulterior motive and lacked bona fide. It said when there was an established mechanism for taking care of adverse reactions and compensation in individual cases, it did not behove doctors to oppose vaccination when World Health Organisation had recommended it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The NGO said eminent oncologists have pointed to data that shows cervical cancer incidence has declined over the past three decades.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sc-junks-anti-hpv-vax-pil-says-plea-has-ulterior-motive\/articleshow\/134030894.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a PIL by a doctors&#8217; association challenging India&#8217;s nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for adolescent girls to protect them against cervical cancer and said it did not behove medical practitioners to take an anti-vaccine stance.Though the NGO&#8217;s counsel clarified at the outset that the PIL was not against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789077271_supreme-court.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a PIL by a doctors&#8217; 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