The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government to prove that its decision to prohibit unvaccinated people from travelling in local trains was in larger public interest, and hence must not be interfered with.

No record of decision-making

A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M S Karnik gave the direction after the state government’s counsel Anil Anturkar informed the court that a meeting had been held last year to decide several SOPs amid the pandemic, but no minutes of the meeting had been recorded when the state decided to prohibit unvaccinated people from using local trains.