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Patanjali Ayurved has issued an unconditional apology to the Supreme Court for airing "misleading" advertisements..
This comes after the court asked Patanjali's co-founder Baba Ramdev and managing director Acharya Balkrishna to personally appear before it on April 2 to clarify their failure to respond to the contempt notice issued against them and the company regarding misleading advertisements about medicinal cures...
On February 27, the Supreme Court had expressed dissatisfaction with Patanjali Ayurved's continued publication of false and misleading advertisements about medicinal cures, despite previously promising not to do so..
The apex court had also warned the company that it should not make any statement against any system of medicine in the media, both print and electronic and had barred Patanjali Ayurved from advertising or marketing its products which it claimed to treat ailments and disorders specified in Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954...
In November 2023, the Supreme Court had asked Patanjali Ayurved to stop misleading claims and advertisements against the modern system of medicine and cautioned it that the court will take any such infraction very seriously, and consider imposing costs to the extent of Rs one crore on every product regarding which a false claim is made that it can cure a particular disease...
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