Baba Ramdev

Yoga guru and entrepreneur Baba Ramdev has approached the Supreme Court with a plea for protection from multiple criminal FIRs filed against him in different states in relation to his controversial comments on the effectiveness of evidence-based medicines in treating Covid-19. The bench of Justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh has issued notices to the central government and the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in response to Ramdev's request… read-more

The Delhi HC will hear the plea filed by seven doctors' associations against Yoga guru Ramdev on July 26. The doctors' claimed that Ramdev blamed the doctors for causing the deaths of several COVID-19 patients by misleading people into believing that allopathy was the cause of deaths. Justice C Hari Shankar who earlier had told the associations to submit video proofs of their claim will hear the matter.

The Delhi High Court on June 3 observed that Baba Ramdev's anti-allopathy remarks and his claims over 'Coronil' fall under the ambit of freedom of speech and expression. It gave the observation against a lawsuit filed by the Delhi Medical Association, which had requested for a restraining order on Ramdev. Besides, to the petitioner, the court said, "Find a cure for the pandemic instead of wasting the court's time."

In another attempt to prove Ayurveda's supremacy, Baba Ramdev on May 31 shared a video of actor Akshay Kumar wherein he can be heard endorsing the traditional method. In the 2017 video shared on Twitter, Akshay had said that there is no illness "the traditional Indian medicine system does not have a cure for". Captioning the video, Ramdev wrote, "Yoga and Ayurveda is more powerful than any foreign chemical injection."

The Federation of Resident Doctors' Association has called for a nationwide protest on June 1 against the anti-allopathy remarks made by Baba Ramdev. The medicos' body said that they would observe the date as "Black Day" and has also asked Ramdev to issue an "unconditional open public apology". Earlier, the yoga guru had sparked a row by stating that "lakhs have died from taking allopathic medicines for Covid-19".