Drugs and Cosmetics Act

The appellant, a retired Air Force corporal, was transfused with a unit of blood at 171 Military Hospital in 2002 during Operation Parakram. He later discovered he was HIV positive in 2014 and alleged that the transfusion was the source of infection, seeking compensation for loss of earnings, medical expenses, mental a…

M/s Stemcyte India Therapeutics, a joint‑venture stem‑cell bank, was assessed service tax for its enrolment, collection, processing and storage of umbilical cord blood stem cells for the period 1 July 2012 to 16 February 2014. The appellant claimed exemption as a "Healthcare Service" under Notification No.25/2012‑ST an…

Mis Naturalle Health Products (P) Ltd. manufactured medicated cough drops, throat drops, Sloan's balm and Sloan's rub under an Ayurvedic drug licence and claimed that the products should be classified under Chapter 3003.30 of the Central Excise Tariff as Ayurvedic medicaments, attracting nil duty. The Central Excise au…

The State of Uttarakhand appealed against the High Court’s order granting bail to Rajesh Kumar Gupta, an Ayurvedacharya who was arrested for allegedly dispensing unlabelled tablets containing psychotropic substances such as phenobarbitone and chlorodiazepoxide, claimed to be herbal cures for epilepsy. Seizure of about …