A division bench of acting Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice K S Gupta in a judgement here this week while restraining the naturo-electro homoeopathy medicos of India (NEHMI) from awarding degree, diploma and certificate of any course during the next six months said ``false and misleading'' claims were being made in the media by fictitious institutes.

Spelling out guidelines for enactment of the laws, the court said minimum standards of education for admission to the institutions and right to use the prefix `doctor' by diploma and certificate holders should be taken into consideration.

The judgement came on a public interest litigation by wing commander (retd) H M Sethi alleging that several `fake' institutes were grantingdegrees, diploma and certificates to thousands of students in electro-homeopathy across the country in violation of the Indian Medical Council Act, Homoeopathic Central Council Act and Indian Medical Degrees Act.

Sethi said under this system of treatment the institutes claimed they were administering homoeopathy medicines charged with `negative and positive electric current' to patients enhance the potency of the medicine for quick effect.