Covid-19 surge: ‘Irresponsible’ EC should face murder charges, says Madras HC

新冠病例激增：马德拉斯高等法院称，选举委员会“不负责任”，应受谋杀指控

CHENNAI:Lambasting the Election Commission for failure to maintain Covid protocol during poll campaigns, the Madras high court on Monday said the EC “should be put up on murder charges…for being the most irresponsible institution.”

金奈：周一，马德拉斯高等法院谴责选举委员会在选举活动中未能遵循抗疫相关协议，称选举委员会“是最不负责任的机构，应受谋杀指控……”

The first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy even threatened to stop the counting of assembly poll votes slated for May 2.

首席大法官Sanjib Banerjee和大法官Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy甚至威胁要停止5月2日的议会计票工作。

“Now we assure you we will stop counting if we do not find before May 2 a blueprint on how proper maintenance of Covid protocol will be maintained so that this state does not succumb to your idiosyncrasies any further,” the judges observed in the course of their oral observations.

两位法官表示：“现在我们向你们保证，如果在5月2日之前没有制定出妥善遵循抗疫相关协议的计划，我们将停止计票”

“You (ECI) are the only institution responsible for the situation that we are in today. You have been singularly lacking any kind of exercise of authority…You have not taken measures against political parties holding rallies despite every order of this court saying ‘maintain Covid protocol, maintain Covid protocol’ like a broken record,” the bench said.

法官说：“选举委员会是唯一要为我们今天所处的局面负责的机构。你们没有行使权力……对举行集会的政党也没有采取措施，尽管法院的每一项命令都说‘遵守抗疫协议。”

“The significance of adhering to such protocol may have been lost on the EC going by the puerile silence on the part of the commission as campaigns and rallies were conducted without distancing norms being maintained and in wanton disregard of the other items of the protocol," it added.

法官还表示，“对在选举活动和集会中不遵守保持（社交）距离的规定，还放肆无视协议中的其他规定的行为，选举委员会保持沉默，那么遵守这样的协议可能已经失去了意义。”

 以下是印度时报读者的评论： 译者：Jessica.Wu

sandeep tandel

Too late, this slap on EC..someone should be there to stop things at right time..not after damage has been done

打了选举委员会一巴掌，太迟了，应该有人及时制止，而不是在造成灾难之后才出手

Ca Yogesh Chandra Pokharna

In my humble opinion it should also take direct action suo moto against all political parties and their leaders

依我拙见，还应直接对印度所有政党及其领导人采取行动

mister libran

These judges still allow farmers to protest in large numbers but blame every one other than them for the situation.

这些法官仍允许农民进行大规模抗议，却将问题归咎于其他人。

Rahul Seshadri

Were the learned Judges slee when the entire election process wss going on ?

What stopped them from taking Suo Moto action?

在整个选举过程中，博学的法官们睡着了吗?

是什么阻止了他们采取行动?

User

Wow,

Finally the courts have said it...

哇，法院终于开口了……

Sanjiv Mathur

Sirs, you are as guilty as the EC for pushing the issue under the carpet when you could have done something about it. What's the use of pointing fingers now?

先生们，你们和选举委员会一样有罪，明明可以做点什么，却隐瞒问题。现在指责别人有什么用?

JOHN RAMBO

Honorable stupid Dravidian DMK dog judges. Was there election in Delhi, Maharashtra where the second surge happened quite early

尊敬而愚蠢的法官，德里和马哈拉施特拉邦有举行选举吗?

那里的第二波疫情很早就开始了

Raghu Ganapathy

The Hon'ble Court has failed to appreciate that in Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka etc. there were no elections. But they are leading in Covid spread. Therefore, there doesn't seem to be any logical connection between elections and covid surge.

法院没有意识到，德里、马哈拉施特拉邦、卡纳塔克邦等地没有举行选举，但这些邦的疫情非常严重。因此，选举和病例激增之间似乎没有任何必然联系。

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With both center and state govt being run by morons, its better courts start ruling the country.

印度中央政府和邦政府都是由笨蛋领导的，最好让法院管理国家。

J

wow , great to know there are still people in India who have guts to speak against government.

哇，很高兴知道印度仍然有人有胆量反对政府。

Deepak Peswanii

Why blame the election commission only. This is mass murder by all the politicans including the PM. Sad there is no love for the people of this country they are only hungry for power to rule us. God bless India

为什么只责怪选举委员会。这是包括总理在内的所有政客造成的大屠 杀。可悲的是，政客们对这个国家的人民没有爱，他们只是渴望获得权力。愿神保佑印度

JAYANTH V G

Every institution thinks they are better than the other. Every Indian knows how responsible are our courts when it comes to cases pending for decades. Sometimes the judgement is heard by the great grand sons.

每个机构都认为自己比其他机构更好。每个印度人都知道，法院积压了几十年都没判的案件，他们多负责任啊。有时审判是由当事人的曾孙们听判的。

Ramesh Mandayam

Courts are acting stupid and wierd! They kept quiet all these months when farmers in huge numbers sat dharna n blocked roads and normal life. No mention about stop Kumbh Mela or Ramadan prayers or anything like that. There is no electin in Delhi or Maharashtra. So how come there are so many cases? Can the HC answer that? Its easy to blame the ECI. What action HC took to stop anything else?

法院的行为既愚蠢又怪异！在这几个月里，当大量农民静坐阻塞道路，防碍正常生活时，他们却一直保持沉默。

法院没有提出要停止举办大壶节或者斋月祈祷之类的。德里和马哈拉施特拉邦没有举行选举，为什么会有这么多病例呢?

高等法院能回答这个问题吗?随便归咎于选举委员会。高等法院采取了什么行动来阻止了吗?

Responsible Indian

Death penalty for the top EC brats and the national govt head. All due to them.

判选举委员会的最高负责人死刑吧，这一切都拜他们所赐。

Mohan M

Was there election in Maharashtra where maxmum Covid cases were reported?

马哈拉施特拉邦的病例最多，那里举行了选举吗？

bishnu Agrawal

Judges think that they are above God. Number of pending cases and delayed justice points to collective failure of judiciary in fulfilling their duties. But they keep on lecturing others.

法官以为他们的地位比神还高。积压了那么多案子没审理，一拖再拖，表明司法机关集体未能履行其职责，但他们一直在对别人说教。

SHAILESH MALAVIYA

but why? maxmum surge in Delhi and maharastra where there were no elections.

这是为什么呢？德里和马哈拉施特拉邦没有举行选举，但病例最多。

Sundar Reader

The EC purposely planed a 8 phase election in WB to help PM and HM to do their mass rallies in Bengal. The EC failed to implement COVID protocol or punish the political leaders for not following covid protocols. The Madras HC is absolutely right.

选举委员会特意为印度人民党计划了8个阶段的选举，以帮助总理和内政部长在西孟加拉举行大规模集会。选举委员会未能执行新冠肺炎防治方案，领导人不遵守新冠肺炎防治方案，选举委员会未对其进行惩罚。马德拉斯高等法院绝对是正确的。

Logician

The EC and BJP govt. are both responsible and should be booked as they are both hand in glove for spreading the Covid-19 beyond control.

选举委员会和人民党政府都有责任，都应该被立案，他们密切配合，导致疫情失控。

Jeroz Bharucha

Very well said by the honorable High Court. These nincompoops must be taken to task immediately.

高等法院说得很好，必须立即惩罚这些笨蛋。