SC bench also expresses reservation about accepting 'unconditional apology' Patanjali co-founders Ramdev & Balkrishna filed on 6 April, says 'they must suffer the consequences'.
In two separate affidavits filed, Ramdev and Balkrishna have tendered an unqualified apology for the 'breach of the statement' recorded in 21 November, 2023 order of the apex court.
In an affidavit before the SC, the Union Ayush ministry said it had issued repeated warnings to Patanjali. But it also slams petitioner IMA for ‘denigrating a system of medicine’.
The top court also came down on the Central government questioning its silence over Patanjali's claim that there were no remedy for Covid in allopathy.
Acharya Balkrishna says company regrets putting out the publicity campaign that questioned efficacy of modern medicine, but also termed the Drugs & Magic Remedies Act as 'archaic'.
Indian Medical Association has accused Patanjali of carrying out a smear campaign on evidence-based medicine. Court noted that no response filed by Patanjali on its contempt notice.
On 27 February, SC temporarily banned Patanjali from advertising certain products. But it was Babu K.V, a Kannur ophthalmologist, who began a fight against its 'misleading ads' in 2022.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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