The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to make all efforts to get in touch with the Information and Broadcasting ministry and Information Technology department of the state government, and block all websites that sell medicines in the state
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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the state government to make all efforts to get in touch with the Information and Broadcasting ministry and Information Technology department of the state government, and block all websites that sell medicines in the state. The court also asked the state government to make efforts to stop advertisements of online medicine sale that star comedians like Krushna Abhishek and Sudesh Lehri
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Justices Vidayadhar Kanade and Swapna Joshi were hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by Mayuri Patil, a professor of K J Somaiya college, Vidyavihar through her counsel Vallari Jattar.
The petitioner claimed that several prescribed schedule H Drugs of the Cosmetics and Drugs act were sold by websites online. Drugs like sleeping pills, abortion tablets and contraceptive pills, are available online and such pills should not be sold without a doctor’s prescription as there were side-effects to such tablets, and youths were buying them online.
Justice Kanade said to Counsel Aparna Vatkar of the state government, “On one side you are making the rules stringent for the pharmacist, and on the other you are allowing people to sell medicines online.”
He further asked the state government to take a clear stand and ban such websites. “You can take help from the Information Technology department. You can’t tell us that it’s not possible to ban such websites. If you make efforts everything is possible,” said Kanade.
The petitioner’s counsel also pointed to the bench that the state government bans porn websites, and similarly these websites can also be banned. “You cannot just register complaints, you should ban all such websites that sell medicines online. You should revert to us in next four week’s time,” Justice Kanade said.
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