FIR Filed Against Baba Ramdev And 4 Others For Claiming To Have Found A Cure For COVID-19

An FIR has been filed against Baba Ramdev, two associates along with 2 top officials of the National Institute of Medical Sciences, where his Patanjali Research Institute had recently conducted a clinical trial on Covid-19 patients, for making ¡°misleading claims¡± on Covid cure, said police as per a TNN report.

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¡°The FIR, filed by advocate Balbir Jakhar on Friday, has named Baba Ramdev, Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna, Patanjali scientist Anurag Varshney, NIMS chairman Balbir Singh Tomar and NIMS director Anurag Tomar. The complainant has alleged that they have misled people by claiming that they have found a cure for Covid-19 in their formulation ¡®Coronil¡¯,¡± said Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay, station house officer of Jyoti Nagar police station.

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On Friday, NIMS had claimed that a scientific study was carried out by them for and on behalf of Patanjali Research Institute, Haridwar, on the impact of Indian traditional ayurvedic treatment regime for nCoV-2 (Covid-19). After the study, Patanjali had claimed to have produced the first and foremost ayurvedic remedy ¡®Coronil¡¯ for mitigating coronavirus-induced mild and moderate clinical signs and symptoms. NIMS had said that the medicine had cured 100% of the patients who received it.After the clinical trial of ¡®Coronil¡¯ was made public, Rajasthan health department had sought a reply from NIMS, questioning why it was not informed about the same since the Covid-19 patients on whom the trial was conducted were sent to the institute by the government. NIMS was supposed to submit its reply by Saturday evening, which it didn¡¯t.

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Meanwhile, a lawyer has filed a PIL before the Rajasthan high court, seeking a ban on the sale of ¡®Coronil¡¯ till the dispute related to authorisation and approvals is settled. The court is yet to hear the PIL.