SC refuses to hear PIL on regulation of cosmetic surgeries

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking a direction to the government to frame guidelines and laws for regulating cosmetic surgery clinics and their advertisements.

"The Supreme Court has many better things to do and we are not here to start laying guidelines on such issues," a bench, comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justices Shiva Kirti Singh and Amitava Roy, said.

The court however asked Chandralekha Sharma, a Guwahati resident claiming to be a victim of negligence at one of the beauty clinics, to continue with her pending plea at a consumer forum.

The PIL has said that strict law and guidelines were required as cosmetic/aesthetic clinics have been mushrooming and giving "misleading" advertisements to trap customers.

The petitioner has also said that she was facing several skin related problems due to the negligence of one such clinic and has already moved the consumer court for award of compensation.

The plea also alleged that doctors at most of such clinics were incompetent.