The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea filed by a doctor seeking directions to the Centre and the Ministry of Ayush to conduct trials of a medicine which he claims to have developed for treatment of Covid-19.
A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said that directions sought in the petition relate to an issue of policy in the “area of public health”.
“The court is not in a position to assess the claim of the petitioner in regard to the efficacy of the Ayurveda-based remedy which he claims to have developed for the treatment of Covid-19. We, therefore, decline to entertain the petition,” the bench, also having Justices RS Reddy and SR Bhat, said in its June 28 order.
“The petition is, accordingly, dismissed,” the bench said. The plea, filed by a medical practitioner working as consultant (pathology) at a hospital in Ghaziabad, claimed that in July last year he was successful in preparing a potent medicine to completely cure the ill-effects of the coronavirus. The plea, drawn by advocate Shalabh Gupta, claimed that the medicine prepared by the petitioner has been effective in all the cases dealt with by him and this treatment is very cheap.