‘Absolute defiance’: Supreme Court bashes Ramdev in misleading ads case, says ‘be ready for action now’

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Yoga guru Ramdev and aide Balkrishna are facing Supreme Court scrutiny over misleading advertisements by Patanjali Ayurved. The court criticised the defendants’ failure to file proper affidavits and warned of consequences.

Yoga guru Ramdev and his aide Shri Balakrishna appeared in the Supreme Court on April 02, 2023. During the hearing of Patanjali Ayurved’s “misleading advertisements” case, the Supreme Court slammed the defendants for their inability to file proper affidavits over the company’s misleading advertisements.

“Be ready for action,” the Supreme Court told Ramdev. “Not just the Supreme Court, every order passed by the courts across this country has to be respected. This is absolute defiance,” the top court added.

Patanjali earlier apologised to the top court which a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah also refused to accept. 

“You should have made sure that the solemn undertaking should have been in letter and spirit. We can also say that we are sorry for not accepting it. Your apology is not persuading this court. It is more of a lip service,” the Supreme Court said.

Ramdev’s lawyer, senior advocate Balbir Singh said that the defendants are ready to apologise in court and they are ready for whatever the court says. Ramdev and Balkrishna now have one week to file their affidavits in the matter.

The Supreme Court also lashed out at the central government for ‘sitting with their eyes shut’ and not taking any action against Ramdev. “This is pretty terrible. The government will have to take some swift action,” the top court said.

This matter started in November last year when the Indian Medical Association (IMA) filed a petition against Patanjali for making “false” and “misleading” claims in advertisements about its products. IMA said some Patanjali advertisements project allopathy and medical practitioners in poor light. IMA stated that some corporations that produce ayurvedic medicines have made ‘disparaging’ statements.

Ramdev and Balkrishna will appear in court on the next date of hearing, April 10. In the last hearing, the court ordered Patanjali to stop all electronic and print advertisements of its medicines that had misleading information with immediate effect.
 

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