A CONCLAVE WITH CALAMITY: A JURIDICAL INSIGHT INTO THE EXORDIUM OF BIOENGINEERED PANDEMICS

ABSTRACT As technology precedes thought and creation, our generation lies on the radar of many unprecedented threats, one of these being – Bioengineered Pandemics. Despite due cognizance through international treaties and conventions, the unbinding nature of these has lead to lack of legislations, especially in the state of India. Obsolete are the days when laboratories were deemed necessary to create biological weapons; nowadays with advanced equipment, mass destruction is a recipe concocted on screens. Originating in warzones and fragile states, once spread, it is difficult to control the extensive outreach of such epidemics. These “barbarous inventions”, according to the International Committee of The Red Cross, continue to augment Bio-Terrorism that is deemed as an inevitable fate by many experts.