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Madras High Court orders interim stay on sale of medicines online

Centre told to file a counter affidavit, matter posted for hearing in second week of November

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T E Narasimhan Chennai
The Madras High Court on Wednesday passed an interim injunction restraining online sale of medicines till November 9. The order was passed on a plea moved by the Chennai-based Tamil Nadu Chemists & Druggists Association.

The Court also directed the Centre to file a counter affidavit and posted the matter for November, second week.

Chennai-based Tamil Nadu Chemists & Druggists Association, which claims to be a representative body of about 30,000 pharmaceutical retailers and wholesalers, filed a plea seeking a direction fron the court to authorities concerned to block the links of websites that sell medicines online.

In the plea it was stated