In Uttar Pradesh the Allahabad High Court has ruled doctors cannot run private hospitals or nursing homes at their residential premises.A Division Bench of the court comprising Justice Sunil Ambawani and Justice Kashi Nath Pandey has said the doctors can, however, set up consultation clinics in residential areas. Dismissing a bunch of writ petitions filed by doctors from Etawah district, the court has said that Constitution empowers governments to impose reasonable restrictions. Several doctors from Etawah district had challenged the order of the Awas Vikas Parishad and the District Chief Medical Officer asking them to wind up nursing homes functioning from their houses. The Court has observed running private hospitals or nursing homes in residential premises amounted to violation of the provisions under which land was allotted to doctors.