Stop misleading advertisements or else we will issue a fine

Supreme Court’s warning to Patanjali

New Delhi – Misleading advertisements must be stopped immediately or the Court will have to take serious notice and impose a fine of rupees one crore for each product, the Supreme Court has warned Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurveda company. The Court issued the above warning while hearing a petition filed by the Indian Medical Association (Indian Medical Association) against Patanjali’s advertisements. We do not want to make this debate as ‘Allopathy vs Ayurveda’. We want to find an answer to the problem of fraudulent advertisements, the Court observed.

During the hearing on this petition last year, the Supreme Court had issued notices to Patanjali along with Union Government’s Health Ministry and Ayush Mantralay.

Editorial Perspectives

• This also needs to be explained to the public now that, which advertisements of which company are misleading and which ones are true.

• People also know that not all product advertisements are 100% true. Therefore, every advertisement needs to be verified. A team should be appointed for this.