The Supreme Court passed a ruling...which said that no new clinical trials should be allowed for new drugs till a mechanism is put in place to monitor them...It had directed the Centre to convene a meeting of Chief Secretaries or Health Secretaries of all the states to frame a law for regulation of clinical trials of drugs by multi-national pharma companies. Earlier, the apex court had said that uncontrolled clinical trial of drugs by multinational companies was creating ‘havoc’ and slammed the Centre for failing to stop the ‘rackets’ which caused deaths...In an affidavit, the Centre had admitted that 2,644 people died during clinical trials of 475 new drugs from 2005 to 2012. ‘Serious adverse events of deaths during the clinical trials during the said period were 2,644, out of which 80 deaths were found to be attributable to the clinical trials,’ the affidavit had said.