stating that Baba Ramdev Chief Justice NV Ramana, whereas presiding over a bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, questioned why he ought to criticize different medical techniques and mentioned “it is better that they should stop blaming other systems”. “.
“He can tell the greatness about his system. Why should he blame all the doctors, allopathy, every system of medicine… After all, we respect him. He popularized yoga. We would all go to his programs and watch yoga. But they should not criticize other systems. What is the guarantee that Ayurveda or whatever system it is adopting will cure all diseases? And the types of advertisements, accusing all doctors, such as They are murderers…” the CJI mentioned.
A bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice CT Ravi Kumar was additionally listening to a plea by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) accusing Ramdev of campaigning towards trendy drugs and vaccination.
The IMA’s plea referred to commercials issued by Ramdev in nationwide dailies which allegedly criticized allopathy.
Appearing for IMA, Advocate Prabhas Bajaj talked about a few of them and mentioned “And it (advertisement) says you will go blind, you will have life-long problems from allopathy, your bones will be weak…”
The CJI replied, “That is a separate issue, but he cannot abuse the doctors and the system… better he should refrain from blaming other systems.” After this the court docket issued discover to the central authorities.
Bajaj mentioned that aside from “derogatory statements” about allopathy, the commercials additionally make claims about analysis and evidence-based drugs for blood stress and sugar, amongst others. He submitted that the content material of the commercials is “seriously affecting the cohesion of all systems”. Alleging that “all this is being done only for commercial purposes”, he mentioned the general public is being misled due to this.
The lawyer mentioned that there are Central Acts which say that such deceptive claims are a legal offence, however no motion is taken.
Justice Ravi Kumar requested the lawyer whether or not he was saying that the declare being made was pretend. “After studying it, it looks like you’re calling it quacks,” he mentioned.
“Exactly my God,” replied the lawyer.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
