You want vaccine, I want vaccine - fair enough. But there is not enough to go around and thus ‘might is right’ is rearing its head and the CEO of vaccine maker Serum Institute of India claimed to have received aggressive threats.
Adar Poonawalla claims the “level of expectation and aggression” is “unprecedented and overwhelming” and to save his and his family’s life, they had to seek safety in UK.
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Seeing this situation of a saviour, a Mumbai lawyer Datta Mane has sought Z+ level security for Adar Poonawalla and his family members.
The CEO currently has Y-level security cover.
The plea is based on media reports in which Adar Poonawalla claims that the intensity of threats, coming from everyone with some modicum of power including Chief Ministers, is intense.
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The advocate has further sought a thorough independent investigation into the threat calls and has also file a complaint with the Commissioner of Police, Pune and the Director General of Police by email on May 3.
The advocate fears that if Adar Poonawalla stays out of India, then “it will be ship in storm without its captain.”