D.S.TEWATIA, J.

1. The petitioner, Dr. Sarwan Singh, has impugned in the present writ petition the action of respondent 4 the District Drugs Inspector, Hoshiarpur, who had prohibited him from keeping in his possession any allopathic drug for administration to the patients and who had further directed the chemists not to issue allopathic medicines to such patients as had been prescribed or were to be prescribed such medicines by the petitioner.

2. The case set up in the petition by the petitioner is that he is a Registered Medical Practitioner and had been so registered with the Board of Ayurvedic and Unani Systems of Medicines, Punjab, respondent 3, vide registration certificate annexure-P. 1, that by notification dt. 29-10-1967, annexure-P. 2, issued under sub-cl. (iii) of cl. (ee) of R.2 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 (for short to be referred as the Drug Rules ) made under the provisions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940, hereinafter referred to as the Drug Act , the Government of Punjab has declared all Vaids end Hakims who had been registered under the East Punjab Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners Act, 1949, the Pepsu Ayurvedic and Unani Practitioners Act, 2