![A Critical Analysis of India’s Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/06/covid_1593026354.jpg)
As the daily cases of COVID-19 in India have proved all the expected rates of decline wrong, the Government continues to rely on the 123-year-old Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 (“The Act”) to try and bring some semblance of control to the situation. The Supreme Court, in a decision dated 17th November 2020, refused to adjudicate [...]