Shashwati Chowdhury
Published on: July 30, 2022 at 19:02 IST
A doctor registered with the State Homoeopathy had criminal charges against him lately, but the Madras High Court dismissed them.
Medical Council who was found practising Allopathy Medicine Based on the training and teaching they received throughout the Course, it was noted that practitioners of Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani who are registered with the Tamil Nadu Board of Indian Medicine are eligible to practise in the respective systems with Allopathy. However, the court cautioned that such persons could not exclusively practise Allopathy.
In a case being heard by Justice Teeka Raman, a doctor sought the court to quash the criminal proceedings that had been brought against him for cheating and violating the Indian Medical Council Act of 1956.
In his appeal, the petitioner claimed that he had completed a Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery (BHMS) and had registered with the Tamil Nadu Homoeopathy Medical Council. The petitioner, then, was a registered medical practioner in the Indian system of medicine.
Additionally, the petitioner cited a circular from the Tamil Nadu government’s Health and Family Welfare Department dated 15.10.2010, which stated that “the institutionally qualified Practitioners of Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani, who are registered in the Tamil Nadu Board of Indian Medicine, Chenaar are eligiblto practice in the respective system with Allopathy based on the training and teaching they had in the Course. But they cannot exclusively do the practice in Allopathy Medicine.“
The above circular was noted by the court. The court took note of the Madras High Court’s decision in the case of Sangalyya v. the State of Tamil Nadu.
The court decided it was appropriate to quash the charges against the petitioner because the matter at hand had already been addressed by the aforementioned judgements and in light of the government circulars, and as a result, it allowed the doctor’s plea.