New Delhi: A PIL seeking cancellation of licence issued to all homeopathy practitioners was today taken up by the Delhi High Court which sought the city government's response on what action has been taken by them to address the issues raised in the plea.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath issued notice to the Delhi government on the petition moved by an NGO which alleged that the homeopathy doctors dispense medicines which do not contain labels showing the ingredients or content of the drugs.
Advocate Sanjoy Ghose, appearing for Delhi government, told the court that action under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act has already been taken.
He said that under the Act, only the manufacturers of homeopathic medicines are required to do the labelling. He said there were five such manufacturers in Delhi and they were complying with the requirement of labelling. Ghose also told the court that most practitioners only dispensed medicine to in-house patients and did not carry out any manufacturing of medicine.
He further said that under the Act and rules, the homeopathy practitioners are exempted from the requirement of labelling the drugs.
The court, thereafter, told the Delhi government counsel to state the action taken on the affidavit and listed the matter for further hearing on December 18.
