Chhattisgarh Police have registered a FIR here against yoga guru Baba Ramdev on charges of spreading false information about medicines used by doctors to treat Covid-19, police said on Thursday.
The case was filed on Wednesday against Ramkrishna Yadav alias Ramdev on a complaint by the state unit of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Senior Superintendent of Police Ajay Kumar Yadav said.
Ramdev has been booked under Sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and others of the Indian Penal Code as well as the Disaster Management Act, he said.
The Chairman of the Hospital Board IMA (Chhattisgarh), Dr Rakesh Gupta and IMA Raipur President Vikas Agrawal were among the doctors who lodged a complaint last month.
They said that over the last one year Ramdev has been spreading propaganda against medicines used by the doctors, the government and frontline organisations vis-a-vis Covid, the FIR said.