Delhi: Court seeks police report on plea seeking FIR against Patanjali over false COVID cure claim
"The accused have shown their malafide intentions which are likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life by misrepresenting and alluring innocent consumers to buy the medicine with a belief of getting cured from the deadly Covid-19," the application stated.;
New Delhi - A Delhi Court on Saturday sought an action taken report from the city police on a complaint seeking FIR against Patanjali Ayurved Limited, Ramdev and others for allegedly cheating people by falsely claiming to have found a cure for Covid-19.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sumeet Anand heard an application filed by advocate Tushar Anand seeking a direction to register a case against Ramdev and others.
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The Station House Officer (SHO) of Vasant Vihar police station in Delhi has been issued a notice and an action taken report has been sought by July 15, when the case will next be heard.
During the course of proceedings, advocate Lalit Valecha, appearing for Tushar Anand, told the court that the police failed to register the FIR on the complaint "just to please their political masters".
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