HC Dismisses PIL Seeking Ban On Coronil

Nainital, 8 Aug 2020:

The Uttarakhand high court (HC), on Friday, dismissed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking ban on Coronil, the medicine that yoga guru Baba Ramdev had claimed to be a treatment for coronavirus.

The bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravi Malimath and Justice Narayan Singh Dhanik while dismissing the PIL also levied a fine of Rs 25,000 on the petitioner. The petitioner, Mani Kumar, is a resident of the Udham Singh Nagar district and had approached the court in June against Baba Ramdev.

While the court order wasn’t available till the filing of the report, lawyers who appeared in the case told TOI that though the petitioner told the court he was ready to withdraw his petition, the court levied a fine for wasting its time.

As reported by TOI earlier, Kumar had approached the court arguing that Baba Ramdev and his Divya Pharmacy had touted Coronil as a cure for Covid-19 without conducting any clinical trial or without any proof. The Ayush ministry had stopped the advertisement of the medicine and the officials from Uttarakhand said that Patanjali had applied for licence for a medicine as an immunity booster. Patanjali is now selling Coronil as immunity booster medicine. The Times Of India