If someone loses their livelihood due to the vaccine administered by the State, is the government not duty bound to redress his grievance? the Kerala High Court asked the Centre on Tuesday. The poser came during the hearing of a man’s plea for a third shot of an internationally recognised vaccine so that he can go back to Saudi Arabia, where he was working as a welder prior to the Covid-19 outbreak. The two doses of Covaxin he received is not recognised or approved in the Gulf nation and therefore, he is unable to travel there.

Justice P V Kunhikrishnan on Tuesday said the court was not blaming the Centre, but when a citizen stands to lose his employment or his movement is restricted due to the vaccine administered to him by the State, then “does the government not have a duty to redress his grievance”? It will hear the matter again on November 29.