Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973

The State of Kerala introduced a "direct payment system" for staff of Dr. Padiar Memorial Homoeopathic Medical College, fixing 40 senior teaching and 50 non‑teaching staff for salary payment. Eight teaching staff members (the respondents) were excluded from the list despite holding recognized homoeopathic qualification…

Dr. A.K. Sabhapathy challenged Kerala's use of the first proviso in Section 38 of the Travancore‑Cochin Medical Practitioners' Act, 1953, which allowed the State to exempt certain persons from the registration requirements for practising modern (allopathic) medicine. The State had issued notifications (May 4 1977, Sept…

The case concerned whether the Central Government could appoint a team of medical inspectors to inspect homoeopathy colleges, or whether that power lay exclusively with the Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) under the Homoeopathy Central Council Act, 1973. The High Court was divided: a Single Bench held that the powe…

The Kerala Ayurveda Paramparya Vaidya Forum, an association of traditional practitioners of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani, challenged the Travancore‑Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 which barred them from practising unless they were registered under the Act. The Forum argued that they had long‑standing custom, inher…

Two homoeopathic colleges, Bhartiya Homoeopathy College, Bharatpur and Yuvraj Pratap Senior Memorial Homoeopathy Medical College, Alwar, were affiliated to the Rajasthan Board of Homoeopathic Medicine and conducted B.H.M.S. examinations through the Board until 1994. The State Government, following a Supreme Court decis…