Patanjali ads case: The Supreme Court closed the contempt case against Ramdev and Acharya Balakrishna, accepting their undertakings to stop issuing misleading ads and other claims regarding Patanjali Ayurved Ltd products.
A petition filed by the Indian Medical Association which approached the Supreme Court in 2022 against disparaging remarks by Ramdev and Patanjali against modern medicine. The petition showed that Patanjali’s advertisements promising miracle cures for lifestyle disorders and other illness violated the law under the Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 and the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1954.
The court had issued contempt notices to Ramdev and Balkrishna after the advertisements continued to appear in newspapers in violation of an undertaking given by the company in November last year.
On August 6, the Supreme Court asked IMA President Dr RV Asokan to publish apologies in all prominent newspapers that carried his interview over his controversial remarks regarding the hearing on misleading advertisements in the top court.
A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Sandeep Mehta also made it clear that Asokan would bear the expanses for the same from his own pocket and not to be done on the IMA’s behalf. The court then adjourned the matter.
The court also expressed unhappiness with Asokan for the nature of the apology tendered by him in the matter.
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