2024-04-30 15:14:13
New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Tuesday said Patanjali Ayurveda has made “corrections” in its apology by naming co-founder Baba Ramdev. The bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah said after examining the public apology issued by Patanjali Ayurveda, ‘There has been a remarkable improvement. Earlier there was only the name of Patanjali, now there are names. We appreciate it. He has understood. During this, the court heard Indian Medical Association President R. Also made strict comments on the statements given by V. Ashokan in his interview to PTI. Justice Amanullah said that be prepared for serious consequences. The Supreme Court has asked Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna to submit the original pages of the newspapers in which the public apology was published.
The bench asked Indian Medical Association President Dr. R.V. Also expressed strong objection to Ashokan’s comments made in an interview to news agency PTI. Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, representing Patanjali Ayurved, raised Ashokan’s comments made in the interview in the court. Rohatgi said, ‘He (IMA president) says why did the court point fingers at us, the court’s comment is unfortunate.’ He said that this is direct interference in the court proceedings. Rohatgi also said he would file an application seeking contempt against the IMA president.
On this, the bench asked Mukul Rohatgi to bring on record the interview of the IMA director with PTI. Justice Amanullah said, ‘Bring it on record. This will be more serious than what is happening so far. Be prepared for more serious consequences.
The bench told the IMA counsel, ‘You have not done any good work and how can you decide what the court will do, if it is right.’
In fact, in an interview to PTI, the IMA chief had said that it was ‘unfortunate’ that the Supreme Court criticized the practices of the IMA and private doctors. He said ‘vague and very general statements’ had discouraged private doctors.
Dr Ashokan had said in an interview, ‘We honestly believe that they need to see what material has been placed in front of them. He probably did not consider that this was not the issue that was before him in court. The court perhaps did not take into account that their real issue was related to Patanjali’s advertisements and not the entire medical sector. The IMA chief had also said that the Supreme Court should have praised the doctors across the country who sacrificed a lot during Covid. Ashokan had said in the interview, ‘You can say anything, but most of the doctors are conscientious… work according to ethics and principles. It does not suit the court to take a strong stance against the medical profession of the country, which has made so much sacrifice in the Covid war.
Dr. Ashokan was responding to the Supreme Court’s comment on April 23 that “if one finger is pointed towards Patanjali, the remaining four fingers point towards IMA.”
Subsequently, the Supreme Court rapped the Uttarakhand State Licensing Authority for inaction in the case. The court said that it seems that the authority took action only after the order of the Supreme Court. Let us tell you that on April 10, the court had already given strict instructions to the licensing authority not to take action against Patanjali.
Earlier, on February 27, the Supreme Court had ordered Patanjali Ayurveda to immediately “stop misleading advertisements.”
The case began in November last year when IMA filed a petition in the Supreme Court, saying the advertisements of Patanjali’s medicines were “false and misleading”.