{"id":14715,"date":"2011-11-17T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T09:21:08","slug":"medicine-prices-shouldnt-rise-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/medicine-prices-shouldnt-rise-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Medicine prices should&#8217;nt rise: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/medicine-prices-shouldnt-rise-supreme-court\/supreme-court-139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14716\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14716\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/medicine-prices-shouldnt-rise-supreme-court\/supreme-court-139\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1.png?fit=186%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"186,140\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Supreme-Court1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1.png?fit=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1.png?fit=186%2C140&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14716\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1-150x112.png?resize=150%2C112&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1.png?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/11\/Supreme-Court1.png?w=186&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Thursday told the central government that the prices of medicines should not rise further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It should go down, not go up,&#8221; said an apex court bench of Justice G.S. 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