Breaking Delhi high court bans online medical sales across country

[Shantanu Upadhyay]

The Delhi highcourt on Wednesday ordered a ban on sale of online medicines by e-pharmacists across the country and directed the Centre and the AAP government to immediately implement the order.

In the plea filed through advocate Nakul Mohta, Ahmed pointed out that online sale of medicines is not permitted under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Pharmacy Act, 1948.

Delhi high court bans online medical sales across country - Times of India ►

 

[Abhi]

Why The Hell Court is interfering in everything unnecessarily

 

[Digital Mastermind]

Why The Hell Court is interfering in everything unnecessarily

Because they feel they are the govt.

 

[Shantanu Upadhyay]

Why The Hell Court is interfering in everything unnecessarily

:no: No bro according to law there is no provision for online sale of medicine,
Hence it is illegal.

 

[Shantanu Upadhyay]

They (govt.) will make amendments in law then sale will restart.

 

[Amit1079]

It's good news for us offline pharmacists

 

[Sarkar]

They (govt.) will make amendments in law then sale will restart.

This proves how much outdated we are. Law makers are shouting in parliament all the day without any meaningful progress as a result we are stuck with obsolete laws which were made for completely different era.

Here is another example medicine law which came way before invention of internet just like telegraph law by which telcos wants to ban OTT sevices and the funny thing is that count/regulators are judging modern things based on these laws. :rofl:

 

[Jas]

It's good news for us offline pharmacists

Congratulations brotherk:

 

[Sumanth]

Here is another example medicine law which came way before invention of internet just like telegraph law by which telcos wants to ban OTT sevices and the funny thing is that count/regulators are judging modern things based on these laws. :rofl:

I didn't quite understand this. Care to elaborate please?

 

[Sarkar]

I didn't quite understand this. Care to elaborate please?

Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 says that only license operator has the right to provide communication service(voice or text) in India. Now OTT service like whatsapp/hike/skype/duo all are illigal according to this law as these OTT does not have license in India. That's why Telcos such as airtel/Voda/idea/jio all are asking TRAI to ban these OTT services based on that law because as a license holder telcos are accountable before indian court but these OTT service are not as they follow USA court law.

For example telcos are bound to provide lawful interception of call/sms of its subscribes to govt but ott service call/text cannot be intercepted as those are encrypted and USA govt is holding encryption key as most servers are there. secondly licence holders need to pay license fee but OTT services are not paying any fee/taxes so no level of playing field though both telco and ott provide same services.