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They declared Gupta a quack. The prosecution failed to prove the charges and court found that the available evidence were not enough to hold him guilty.”Declared quack by Indian Medical Association (IMA) in 2000, RK Gupta, was arrested by Uttarakhand police on August 14, 2004, after a Canadian woman who was his patient, had complained about his medicines to the Union government which asked the state government to take action against him.It is to be noted that police had made an attempt to arrest Gupta on August 3, 2004, but people of Rishikesh protested and an angry crowd managed to free him. Dehradun: Almost 28-days after being sentenced to five year in jail by the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) court, a higher court in Dehradun on Saturday acquitted Rajesh Kumar Gupta, who runs Neeraj Clinic in Rishikesh in the name of treating epilepsy patients, after prosecution failed to prove the charges.Besides Gupta, the court of additional district judge (ADJ) Vinod Kumar also acquitted 14 other people, who were also sentenced by CJM court to one year imprisonment.Incidentally, the CJM court on December 20 last year, convicted Gupta under section 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension), section 420 (cheating) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 7 of The Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act 1954, and sentenced him to five year jail-term.Defence lawyer Rupesh Bhandari said, “We had appealed against the CJM court order before the appellate court on December 21. Gupta was accused of administering psychotropic substances to his patients in Neeraj Clinic.Police later booked former chairman of Rishikesh municipal council Deep Sharma and 13 others on charges of freeing RK Gupta to evade him from being arrested.In early 2000’s, Gupta had a thriving practice and he even used to give big advertisements about his ‘expertise’ in treating epilepsy in leading national dailies and television channels.Taking note of his extravagant advertisements in 2000, a three member team of doctors comprising Dr V N Sharma, Dr S P Singh and Dr J Rao of Karnataka of Indian Medical Association (IMA) anti-quackery cell was sent to check Neeraj Clinic and the treatment given by the so called epilepsy expert..