Delhi HC Bans E-Pharmacies for the Time Being

Respondents pray for and are granted four weeks time to file the counter affidavit.

Shri Arvind Nigam, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that online sale of drugs is prohibited in law. There is no control and the sale is being done in total violation of the statutory provisions, namely, the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. That apart, he invites our attention to the draft rules prepared and circulated wherein online dispensation of drugs is prohibited. He also invites our attention to an interim order passed by the Madras High Court in W.P.No.28716/2018 and W.M.P.No.33542/2018 on 31.10.2018 wherein taking note of all these factors and the seriousness of the issue and the public cause involved, interim injunction has been granted with regard to online sale of medicines without licence and the competent authority has been directed to stall such online sales forthwith. We see no reasons as why similar directions be not issued in the present case.

List on 25.03.2019.

Respondents are injuncted from online sale of medicines without licence and the respondents are directed to ensure that the same is prohibited forthwith until further orders.

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