JUDGMENT

Petitioner challenges Exhibit-P1 to Exhibit-P14 and also seeks for a declaration that he is competent to be granted ‘A’ class registration for practicing Naturopathy and Yoga treatment. A further direction is sought for, to direct the first respondent to grant ‘A’ class provisional registration to the petitioner till the constitution of a separate Council for Naturopathy and Yoga and also to take steps to include Naturopathy and Yoga treatment as Indian System of Medicine under the Travancore Cochin Medical Practitioners Act, 1953 .

2. Petitioner claimed to have completed his SSLC in the year

2001 and joined for Diploma in Naturopathy and Yogic Science at Akhil Bharathiya Prakritik Chikitsa Parishad and completed the said course in the year 2006. According to the petitioner, the said course was approved by the Government as per G.O.(P) No.116/2010/H & FWD dated 17.03.2010. Petitioner also alleges that the first respondent Council had accorded sanction to provide provisional ‘A’ class registration to qualified Naturopaths who satisfy certain specified conditions. Later, petitioner joined for Diploma in Naturopathy and Yogic Science (DNYS), conducted by the Department of Adu