New Delhi: Yoga guru Swami Ramdev has again run into controversy, this time because of a drug allegedly manufactured by his Hardwar-based Divya pharmacy which promises birth of a male child.
The district health department has begun a probe into the medicine branded 'Putravati', which reportedly is sold by Ramdev’s pharmacy. The State Health Department on Thursday asked the district health department to find out whether Swami Ramdev's pharmacy was actually manufacturing the drug.
However, Acharya Bal Krishan, head of Patanjali Yoga Peeth—the organisation that runs all Ramdev institutions including the pharmacy—refuted the allegations saying it’s a ''conspiracy'' to malign the yoga guru’s name.
Ramdev’s organisation said they are selling no such medicine and that the name of the aforementioned drug is not there even in the catalogue of the company. The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Hardwar, Dr R S Puri told UNI there was no mention of the medicine in the catalogue of the medicines manufactured by Swami Ramdev's pharmacy.
''We also sent a decoy to purchase the medicine, but the salesmen of the pharmacy told him that no such medicine is sold by them,'' the CMO was quoted by UNI.
Former chairperson of the State Women Commission, Dr Santosh Chauhan said manufacturing such medicine or making publicity of any such medicine was an act of discrimination against the girl child
and it was an offence under the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994.
She asked for a high level probe to find out whether Swami Ramdev's pharmacy was really manufacturing such a medicine or some body else had published pamphlets under Swamiji's name to sell his own medicine.
With excerpts from UNI
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