ORDER

1. THIS WRIT PETITION AND THE IA IN WP (C) NO. 3559 OF 1983, WHICH WAS DISPOSED OF BY THE ORDER DATED 1-4-1997, ARE A COROLLARY AND OFFSHOOT OF THE ABOVESAID DECISION, REPORTED AS PRATAP PHARMA (P) LTD. V. UNION OF INDIA1. PURSUANT TO THE DIRECTIONS GIVEN BY THIS COURT, A COMMITTEE, CONSTITUTED UNDER SECTION 33-C OF THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT, 1940, WENT INTO THE QUESTION AND, AFTER AFFORDING THE PETITIONER AN OPPORTUNITY OF HEARING AND TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION SUCH MATERIAL AS WAS AVAILABLE TO IT, CAME TO A CONCLUSION THAT THE INJECTABLE PREPARATIONS BEING MARKETED AS AYURVEDIC INJECTIONS BY THE PETITIONER FIRM DO NOT FIND PLACE IN ANY OF THE AYURVEDIC F TEXTS AND ARE ALSO NOT LISTED IN AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA. AS REGARDS THE DATA TO BE FURNISHED BY THE FIRM ABOUT EFFICACY, SAFETY AND CLINICAL TRIAL OF THEIR PRODUCTS, THE COMMITTEE FORMED AN OPINION THAT SUFFICIENT DATA WAS NOT FURNISHED IN SPITE OF ADEQUATE OPPORTUNITY HAVING BEEN ALLOWED. THE COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS CONCLUDED THAT THE AYURVEDIC INJECTIONS MARKETED BY THE PETITIONER FIRM REQUIRED TO BE PROHIBITED.

2. THE SUBMISSION OF THE LEARNED SENIOR COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONER HAS BEEN THAT THE FINDING OF THE COM