Baba Ramdev has been summoned to the Supreme Court of India for giving false information in the advertisement

Indian yoga guru Ramdev has been summoned by the Supreme Court for misleading advertisements promoting the products of his established Ayurvedic company Patanjali. Apart from ordering him to appear before the court, he was also given a show cause notice. At the same time, the court reprimanded the managing director of Patanjali, Acharya Balakrishnan.

The Supreme Court ordered to stop the advertisement of various medicines of Patanjali because of misleading information. The Supreme Court told them to stop such advertisements till further orders. Originally the Indian Medical Association complained that Patanjali’s advertisements were giving false information about allopathy. The company therefore appealed to the Supreme Court against Patanjali’s advertisement.

Patanjali defied the court order. In view of this, the apex court directed the institution to respond to the contempt of court charges. But at that time Patanjali did not respond. Therefore, for disobeying the order of the court, the Supreme Court once again issued notice of contempt of court to Ramdev and Acharya Balakrishnan.

In November last year, Patanjali also misled the Covid-19 vaccine. Based on that, the court asked the Center to take action against such advertisements. The court said at that time, all fake and misleading advertisements of Patanjali should be stopped immediately.

Patanjali claimed that every disease mentioned in their advertisement could cure their ailments. But the court did not find the truth of this claim. At that time, the court had said that a fine of Rs 1 crore could be levied for each of Patanjali’s medicines for making false claims.

The Indian Medical Association, which filed a case against Baba Ramdev’s organization Patanjali, alleged that Ramdev has misled people and propagated falsehoods by constantly campaigning on social media against allopathic treatment and medicine.