JUDGMENT

Petitioner claims to have been practicing Homeopathic System of Medicine since 1978. He claims to have an unblemished practice all along. He is aggrieved by Ext.P17 refusing to consider his representation dated 22.01.2025.

2. Having heard the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as respondents, it is noticed that by the decision in Central Council of Indian Medicine and others v. State of Kerala and others [2020 KHC Online 759], the reliefs claimed by the petitioner cannot be granted.

In the said decision, this Court has already declared that the first proviso to Section 38 of the Travancore-Cochin Medical Practitioners Act , 1953, is unconstitutional. Therefore, the writ petition has to be dismissed.

Accordingly, this writ petition is dismissed.