Bombay HC relaxes bail condition of ill-repute doctor Munir Khan

Doctor of ill repute Munir Khan will be back in business soon with his lsquopanacearsquo Bombay High Court on Tuesday relaxed the bail condition forbidding him from selling Body Revival which had been banned in his home state Rajasthan Versova police had also confiscated the entire stock of the medicine from his clinics in Mumbai after complaints from disgruntled patients that the product was spurious The court however warned that its decision should not be interpreted as blanket permission to sell the lsquocureallrsquo as the medicine was still subject to other laws Khan was represented by lawyers Aabad Ponda and Niranjan Mundargi Previously too Khan had challenged the 2010 order of an Additional Sessions Judge banning him from selling his concoction But hersquod withdrawn his application as the manufacturing licence of Body Revival still stood cancelled by authorities in Rajasthan On April 9 2013 the powers that be finally permitted its manufacture and sale after Khan agreed not to lsquoexaggerate its benefitsrsquo In his petition Khan claims to be the proprietor of two stateoftheart manufacturing units in Kota Rajasthan and Baddi Himachal Pradesh to manufacture his drug Tests by the Department of Pharmacology institute of PG Medical Education and Research in Kolkata have concluded Body Revival is a purely herbal product free of any toxic ingredients A clinical trial on 100 persons showed the medicine was harmless Despite this the Sessions Court had rejected his plea Khan then approached the High Court contending that his Right to Livelihood was being intruded Conditions apply While relaxing the condition not permitting the sale of Body Revival Justice RC Chavan of Bombay High Court noted ldquoIt however should not be interpreted as a permission granted by this court to sell that product and the sale would be subject to all the rules and regulations in force in the State of Maharashtra as well as in other statesrdquo ldquoThe court has allowed Khan to vend his creation subject to other laws However he will not be able to make tall claims about the drug when selling itrdquo Mundargi told MiD DAY A senior FDA official who did not wish to be named said ldquoSince the product is Ayurvedic it is subject to testing under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940 If a person acquires all clearances under the law he can sell the drug againrdquou00a0u00a0 Miracle drug Munir Khan is the proprietor of Health Reactive making and selling Unani and Ayurvedic medicines His chief claim to fame was the development of the lsquomiracle drugrsquo Body Revival Several celebrities including Tabassum Naresh Suri Prity Sapru and Ruby Bhatia had endorsed and advertised it as a cure for all diseases including cancer deafness dumbness blindness heart blockages cancer and brain tumours In January 2008 FDA had raided Khanrsquos premises though at the time no action was taken A year later another raid was conducted followed by more inaction In October 2009 senior officers realised cops from the Versova police station were hand in glove with Khan Following a criminal investigation by police he was arrested and charged under sections 467 468 471 420 406 108 34 of IPC and various sections of The Drugs and Magic Remedies Objectionable Advertisements Actu00a0