Complaint filed against Baba Ramdev after Patanjali launches Covid-19 drug 'Coronil'
Day after Patanjali Ayurvedic Medicines launched ‘Coronil’, anti-COVID tablets, to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus, a complaint has been filed against Baba Ramdev for violating the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
In a complaint sent to Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta by Parvinder Singh Kittna, Advocate Hakam Singh, Kuldeep Singh Khaira, Advocate Simranjit Kaur Gill, it has been written that Baba Ramdev has claimed to invent the medicine to cure 'Covid-19' pandemic without involving AYUSH Ministry as well as Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and without disclosing two-stage clinical trial to both of them.
"Claim of Baba Ramdev is clear cut guidelines of guidelines issued by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and attracts the offences u/s 420, 270, 276 and 188 of IPC and section .... of Pandemic Act, section 7 of Drugs & Magic Remedies (objectionable advertisement) Act, 1954 and section 66(D) of Information Technology Act, 2000. We request you to bring my statement on record and lodge First Information Report (FIR)," it added.
Recently, the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) directed Patanjali to stop advertising the products—Coronil and Swasari. Similarly, the Ayurvedic company has been asked to stop misleading advertising until the results are verified.
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“Facts of the claim and details of the stated scientific study are not known to the Ministry,” the Ministry of Ayush said in a statement. The company had said in a statement that Coronil provides a 0 percent death rate and a 100 percent recovery rate.
-PTC News
