On July 29, the Delhi High Court had directed Patanjali Ayurved and its promoters, including Baba Ramdev, to withdraw within three days their claim that Coronil was a “cure” for COVID-19.
The high court handed down its ruling on a petition that formed part of a 2021 lawsuit filed by several medical associations against Dr Ramdev, his colleague Dr Acharya Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurveda.
According to a bench report, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani issued an interim order restraining Ramdev, his associate Acharya Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurved from filing any such complaint.
“The defendants were directed to remove the specific tweets within three days and if they failed to comply, the social media intermediaries would remove the content,” the report quoted the judge as saying.
The case comes amid growing scrutiny over the efficacy of Patanjali products.
The court was dealing with a defamation suit filed by several medical associations against Ramdev, his colleague Acharya Balkrishna and Patanjali Ayurveda, Patanjali and its promoters.
The suit alleged that Ramdev and his associates had made misleading claims that people’s deaths due to COVID-19 were due to allopathic treatment and that allopathic doctors were making undue profits from patients and recommending them medicines that have poisonous effects.
The doctors alleged that through such misleading claims, Dr Patanjali is sowing doubts in the minds of the general public about the safety and efficacy of allopathic medicines and also the COVID-19 vaccine.
According to the lawsuit, Ramdev made “unsubstantiated claims” that Coronil was a treatment for COVID-19, even though the drug was only approved as an “immune booster.”
