All posts tagged: violation of court orders

Ready to give public apology to show contrition: Ramdev, Balkrishna in Supreme Court | India News

YOGA GURU Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna on Tuesday tendered their apologies in person to the Supreme Court for holding a press conference and publishing advertisements in violation of court orders, and said they were willing to give a “public apology to show contrition”. “I am willing to give a public apology to show contrition and to tell the public that its not that I am doing some lip service in court…,” Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Ramdev and Balkrishna, told a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah. In response to queries from the bench on why he did not refrain from disparaging other systems of medicine and announce his claims by parading patients on the stage instead of approaching the interdisciplinary medical committee with evidence to back his claims, Ramdev said, “Aage se mein is tathya ke prati 100 per cent jagrook rahunga (I will be 100 per cent alert to this fact hereafter). It’s not good for me too that such things happen. It happened in zest …