The Supreme Court on Monday refused to remain the proceedings initiated by the Delhi Drugs Controller towards the muse led by BJP MP Gautam Gambhir for allegedly procuring and distributing COVID-19 medication.
Refusing to entertain the plea, Justice DY Chandrachud, heading the two-judge bench, stated, “We read the papers. During the second wave, people were wandering here and there to buy medicines. Then suddenly a person started distributing drugs. It hasn’t been done”.
Senior advocate Kailash Vasudev, showing for the muse, sought a keep on the prosecution beneath the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940.
But the bench, additionally comprising Justice MR Shah, stated, “You can pursue your remedies in the High Court. But we cannot help you. How can we maintain this process?”
‘It’s a course of it’s important to undergo. You are in public life,” Justice Shah stated.
The courtroom requested the senior counsel to seem within the proceedings pending earlier than the HC, after which he sought permission to withdraw the petition. The courtroom allowed this.
Hearing a PIL, which alleged that politicians have been capable of procure and distribute massive portions of COVID medication, the HC in May requested the Drugs Controller to take severe word of the allegations of unauthorized distribution of COVID medication by some AAP MLAs. requested to see.
The HC stated Gambhir might have truly accomplished so to assist the needy and “even with the best of intentions, they are misconduct”.
Subsequently, the Drugs Controller knowledgeable the HC that it had prosecuted the muse, its trustees and CEO, AAP MLA Praveen Kumar and Imran Hussain on July 8 for violation of the provisions of the Act.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
