The Sunday Guardian

COVID-19 A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON, ALLEGES US LAWYER WHO SUED CHINA

Railways on overdrive to ensure availabili­ty of essential commoditie­s

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA NEW DELHI NAVTAN KUMAR NEW DELHI

Larry Klayman says the virus was developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

American lawyer Larry Klayman, who has filed a $20 trillion lawsuit against the Chinese government, believes that the US intelligen­ce agencies have evidence to prove beyond doubt that Covid-19 is a biological weapon.

Klayman, who filed the class action suit (a suit where a group of people come together to sue the defendant) against China on 17 March, stated in his suit that the virus was developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “The only bioweapons laboratory in China is in Wuhan.

Two plus two equals four. We will get discovery on US intelligen­ce agencies. They (US intelligen­ce agencies) know,” Klayman told The Sunday Guardian. In the American legal system, parties to the dispute can obtain evidence from a third party by using means such as interrogat­ories, requests for production of documents and government records through “discovery”, which is a pre-trial procedure.

Klayman and his advocacy group Freedom Watch, along with a Texas company, have filed the lawsuit against the Chinese government, the Chinese army, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Shi Zhengli, who is the Director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Chinese army’s Major General Chen Wei, who leads the Institute

Indian Railways carried more than 1.6 lakh wagons in four days this week in order to keep the supply chain functional at a time when the country has gone into a lockdown to stop the spread of the novel coronaviru­s. Out of these, more than one lakh wagons carried essential commoditie­s like food grains, milk, edible oil, fruits and vegetables.

An Indian Railways official said that while the whole country continues to be locked down, the nation

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