Supreme Court issues contempt notice to Patanjali, restrains firm from issuing misleading ads

The apex court also issued contempt notices to the company and its director Acharya Balakrishna for violating a November 2023 order of the Court restraining the company from making any adverse statements against modern medicine.

A bench of justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah passed the order after they were shown the advertisement materials brought to the Court by Indian Medical Association (IMA) which had approached the Court in 2022 seeking action against Patanjali for disparaging allopathy and modern medicine and making misleading claims about curing diseases contrary to law.

The bench said, “Your statement was not worth the paper. You took the Court lightly. This Court had bound you to the statement you had made.”