Police planning course of action in case against Ramdev and others

JAIPUR: Police are chalking out a course of action in the case related to FIR filed against yoga guru Ramdev, two of his associates and two top officials of city-based National Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), where the yoga guru’s Patanjali Research Institute had recently carried out a clinical trial on Covid-19 patients, for making ‘misleading claims’ on Covid cure.
Police had registered the FIR on Friday. “An advocate Balbir Jakhar has filed an FIR against five people in clinical trials case alleging that the claim of Covid cure is misleading. We will first record statement of the complainant about what are his objections and complaints. On the basis of that, course of action in the FIR will be decided,” said Sudhir Kumar Upadhyay, station house officer of city’s Jyoti Nagar police station.
The FIR, filed by advocate Balbir Jakhar on Friday, named Baba Ramdev, Patanjali CEO Acharya Balkrishna, Patanjali scientist Anurag Varshney, NIMS chairman Balbir Singh Tomar and NIMS director Anurag Tomar. The complainant alleged that they have misled people by claiming that they have found a cure for Covid-19 in their formulation ‘Coronil’.
The 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.