Kerala court docket points non-bailable warrants towards Ramdev, Balakrishna

A court docket in Kerala’s Palakkad issued non-bailable warrants towards Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balakrishna on Monday after they failed to seem in a legal case regarding allegedly deceptive medical commercials.

The court docket had beforehand issued a bailable warrant, ordering their look on Saturday, 1 February. Nonetheless, as they did not attend, the court docket escalated the matter by issuing non-bailable warrants. The following listening to within the case is scheduled for 15 February. Previous to this, the identical court docket had issued a summons for his or her look on 16 January, however their failure to attend led to the issuance of the bailable warrant.

The judicial top notch Justice of the Peace II in Palakkad has now issued the non-bailable arrest warrants towards yoga guru Baba Ramdev, his affiliate Acharya Balakrishna, and Divya Pharmacy, the advertising and marketing arm of their Haridwar-based pharmaceutical firm Patanjali Ayurved, in reference to the deceptive commercials case.

The case was filed by the medicine inspector of Palakkad in October 2024 below the Medication and Magic Treatments (Objectionable Commercials) Act, 1954. It pertains to Patanjali’s deceptive commercials within the media, falsely claiming that their merchandise may treatment hypertension and diabetes.