Overview

• Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court that Chhattisgarh Police has filed a closure report in the case tied to Ramdev’s 2021 remarks on allopathy during the pandemic.
• The bench of Justices M. M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma noted that with only one Bihar case left, Ramdev’s plea to club multiple FIRs no longer survives.
• The matter was adjourned to the last week of December, with the court assuring that no coercive action will be taken against Ramdev in the interim.
• Ramdev’s counsel flagged that a complainant could move a protest petition to revive the closed case, prompting the court to seek clarity on the status of the Bihar proceedings.
• Complaints by IMA chapters in Patna and Raipur invoked IPC sections 188, 269 and 504 and the Disaster Management Act, as the Delhi Medical Association sought to intervene alleging unapproved ‘Coronil’ sales and claiming revenue of over Rs 1,000 crore.