Delhi High Court on Monday refused to stay a district judge order asking Indian Medical Association president Jayalal to refrain from using the organisation's platform to propagate any religion. The trial court judge had also cautioned the IMA chief that loose comments can't be expected from a person chairing a responsible post. Justice Asha menon said the court will not pass any parte order and posted the plea for June 16 to hear the stand of the person those complaint the trial court had passed the order on June 4. The high court said it will have to look into the order passed by the trial court and cannot take a superficial view. The court, however, issued notice on the appeal filed by Jayalal challenging the trial court's order. In his plea, the IMA president sought to stay the observations made against him saying they were affecting his reputation as he was heading a body of 3.5 lakh doctors as its members. He contended that there was no television debate between Jayalal and Yoga guru Ramdev and that he was not propagating any religion, including Christianity, and that the suit before the district court was based on a feke news. If anyone promotes allopathy, this does not mean that the person was asking for conversion into Christianity, Jaylal's counsel argued, adding that he is not against ayurveda but against mixopathy. The counsel said jayalal never uttered any remarks against Hinduism nor ever tried to force convert any Indian of any religion to Christianity. Additional district judge Ajay Goel had earlier passed the order on a plea against Jayalal for allegedly starting a defamatory campaign against the Hindu religion "by way of promoting Christianity, in the garb of proving superiority of allopathic medicines over ayurveda in treatment of Covid-19.
