Mumbai: The Bombay high court has issued a direction to the state government to issue notices to all veterinary shops in Mahara-shtra, asking them to not sell antibiotics without a doctor’s prescription.
The court issued this direction while hearing a Public Interest Litigation filed by NGO Citizen Circle for Social Welfare and Education claiming that antibiotics are given to hens for growth and then these chickens are sold for human consumption which could lead to health complications.
The division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice G.S. Kulkarni also asked the state to come up with a proposal of setting up mobile laboratories so that citizens could go to these laboratories to check adulteration in food.
In March 2018, to verify actual and factual situation petitioner, NGO’s president Arshad Ali had gone to market and purchased antibiotics but seller didn't ask for doctor’s prescription.
According to petitioner’s lawyer advocate Shehzad Naqvi, the affidavit claimed that the antibiotic, which he bought was Colestin, should be a last resort when no other antibiotic is working on patient.
