Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 351 · Decided 3 March 2025
Siddharth Dalmia & ANR. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 351 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 197
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 337/2018
- Decided
- 3 March 2025
- Bench
- SURYA KANT, N KOTISWAR SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21, 32
Headnote
In the instant Writ petition, purportedly filed in Public Interest, the Petitioner sought a direction to the private hospitals not to compel the patients to buy the medicines, etc. from the pharmacies recommended by them. The issues were (i) whether the affairs of nursing homes, medical institutes, etc. with reference to the fixation of prices of drugs, equipment, or other accessories sold from the pharmacies run by them and/or with whom they have some commercial agreement, can be regulated through administrative or legislative measures? (ii) If so,
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