IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PIUS C.KURIAKOSE & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE C.K.ABDUL REHIM MONDAY, THE 22ND AUGUST 2011 / 31ST SRAVANA 1933 WP(C).No. 20543 of 2011(P) -------------------------- PETITIONER(S): --------------- KERALA AYURVEDA UNANI PARAMBARYA VAIDYA FEDERATION, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, T.MOHAMMED NAUSHAD, THAZHATH HOUSE, AKKARAPARAMBU, POONTHAVANAM P.O., MALAPPURAM-25. BY ADV. SRI.T.K.SANDEEP RESPONDENT(S): --------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, HOME DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. 2. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. 3. EXCISE COMMISSIONER, EXCISE DEPARTMENT, TRIVANDRUM-695001. 4. STATE OF KERALA, REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE DEPARTMENT, SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM-695001. SRI.P.C.IYPE, ADDL. ADVOCATE GENERAL FOR R1TO4 SRI.VIJU ABRAHAM - GP THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVE COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 22/08/2011, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: WP(C).No. 20543 of 2011(P) APPENDIX PETITIONER'S EXHIBITS: EXT.P1 COPY OF THE GOVERNMENT ORDER DATED 16.4.2010 EXT.P2 COPY OF THE GOVERNMENT ORDER DATED 21.02.2011. EXT.P3 COPY OF THE REPRESENTATION DATED 4.5.2011. /TRUE COPY/ P.S. TO JUDGE cl PIUS C. KURIAKOSE & C.K. ABDUL REHIM, JJ. ........................................... W.P.(C).NO.20543 OF 2011 ............................................. Dated this the 22nd day of August, 2011. JUDGMENT Pius C. Kuriakose, J: This writ petition has been filed by the Kerala Ayurveda Unani Parambarya Vaidya Federation which claims membership of traditional medical practitioners in various branches of medicines namely Kalari, Marmachikitsa, Adivasi Daiyam, Nattu Vaidayam, Traditional Ayurvedam, Sidha Vaidyam, Visha Chikilsa, Unani etc. In short the case propounded in this writ petition is that innumerable persons who practice one type of medicine or other call themselves generally as Vaidyars. A reading of paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of the writ petition will show that a Government order granting exemption to certain classes of Parambarya Vaidyars from obtaining registration has been stayed by this Court and that under the guise of the interim order of this Court staying Ext.P2 and also on the influence of the drug manufacturers and academic doctors, the police officers W.P.(C).NO.20543 OF 2011 : 2 : accompanied by Drug inspector and Excise officials are now posing constant threats to the Traditional medical practitioners. They constantly visit the place of practice of the office bearers of the petitioner organization and are threatening that they will be arrested if they don't show their registration. All the members of the petitioner organization are traditional medical practitioners who are practicing medical practice for more than 20 years in different parts of Kerala. 2. The preliminary point of objection raised by Sri. Viju Abraham, the learned senior Government Pleader, was that in the teeth of the allegations and accusations which are so widely worded and of such wide amplitude, it may not be possible for the second respondent, Director General of Police and the officers under him to seek instructions regarding the correctness of the accusations. We close this writ petition giving liberty to the individual members of the petitioner organization to W.P.(C).NO.20543 OF 2011 : 3 : approach this Court voicing their individual grievances. Sd/= PIUS C. KURIAKOSE, JUDGE. Sd/= C.K. ABDUL REHIM, JUDGE. cl