Ramdev Remarks on Allopathy: After IMA, DMA, seven more doctors associations move Delhi HC

Among these, the Resident Doctors' Association of AIIMS have filed a suit against the Yoga Guru under Section 91 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC), accompanied by an application seeking leave of the Court, seeking a permanent and mandatory injunction against Baba Ramdev for his alleged statement on allopathy, adds ANI.

The associations were represented by senior advocates Kapil Sibal, Akhil Sibal and advocate Harshvardhan Kotla.

Advocates representing the doctors' associations submitted before the court that the mala fide and misinformation campaign by Baba Ramdev during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic amounts to public nuisance.

They alleged that Ramdev was misleading and misrepresenting to the public at large that allopathy was responsible for the deaths of several people infected by the COVID19 virus, and insinuating that allopathic doctors were causing deaths and profiteering off the patients.

In their plea, the associations have submitted that the yoga guru was sowing doubts in the minds of the general public with respect to the safety and efficacy of not only allopathic treatments but also COVID-19 vaccines.

Being a highly influential person, it is apprehended that Ramdev's statements can influence lakhs of people and divert them from allopathic treatments which are prescribed as the standard form of care even by the government, they said.

The associations alleged that the misinformation campaign was nothing but an advertisement and marketing strategy to further the sales of the product sold by Ramdev, including Coronil which claims to be an alternative treatment for COVID-19.