<p> A petition filed in the Bombay High Court has sought Z-plus security for Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer of the Serum Institute of India (SII) which manufactures the Covishield vaccine against Covid-19.</p>.<p>The Union government has already granted `Y' category security to the Pune-based industrialist.</p>.<p>Advocate Datta Mane, the petitioner, also sought a direction to the police to register FIR and carry out a probe into alleged threat to Poonawalla over the supply of vaccine.</p>.<p>If vaccine makers felt unsafe, it could affect vaccine production, the petition, filed on Wednesday, said.</p>.<p><strong>Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/everything-falls-on-my-shoulders-but-cant-do-it-alone-adar-poonawalla-on-vaccine-pressure-in-india-981271.html" target="_blank">Everything falls on my shoulders, but can't do it alone: Adar Poonawalla on vaccine pressure in India</a></strong></p>.<p>"If Adar Poonawalla is out of India due to threat to his life, then it (his company) will be a ship in a storm without its captain," said the plea.</p>.<p>Poonawalla had said in a recent interview to The Times that he left for the United Kingdom due to threats and pressure from `powerful people' seeking vaccine doses on priority.</p>.<p>Mane further said in the petition that he has approached the Commissioner of Police, Pune and Maharashtra Director General of Police with a complaint about alleged threat to the SII CEO.</p>.<p>The high court should direct the police to register FIR and ask the government to provide higher-level security to Poonawalla, the petition said.</p>.<p>It will come up for hearing in due course.</p>
<p> A petition filed in the Bombay High Court has sought Z-plus security for Adar Poonawalla, Chief Executive Officer of the Serum Institute of India (SII) which manufactures the Covishield vaccine against Covid-19.</p>.<p>The Union government has already granted `Y' category security to the Pune-based industrialist.</p>.<p>Advocate Datta Mane, the petitioner, also sought a direction to the police to register FIR and carry out a probe into alleged threat to Poonawalla over the supply of vaccine.</p>.<p>If vaccine makers felt unsafe, it could affect vaccine production, the petition, filed on Wednesday, said.</p>.<p><strong>Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/everything-falls-on-my-shoulders-but-cant-do-it-alone-adar-poonawalla-on-vaccine-pressure-in-india-981271.html" target="_blank">Everything falls on my shoulders, but can't do it alone: Adar Poonawalla on vaccine pressure in India</a></strong></p>.<p>"If Adar Poonawalla is out of India due to threat to his life, then it (his company) will be a ship in a storm without its captain," said the plea.</p>.<p>Poonawalla had said in a recent interview to The Times that he left for the United Kingdom due to threats and pressure from `powerful people' seeking vaccine doses on priority.</p>.<p>Mane further said in the petition that he has approached the Commissioner of Police, Pune and Maharashtra Director General of Police with a complaint about alleged threat to the SII CEO.</p>.<p>The high court should direct the police to register FIR and ask the government to provide higher-level security to Poonawalla, the petition said.</p>.<p>It will come up for hearing in due course.</p>