Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Fined Rs 11 Lakh For Misleading Advertisements

PTI

A Haridwar court has slapped Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved’s five production units with a fine of Rs 11 lakh for “misbranding and putting up misleading advertisements” of their products.

Haridwar’s Additional District Magistrate Lalit Narayan Mishra’s court has asked the company to pay the fine within a month.

Patanjali Ayurved was found guilty of misbranding as the products being shown by the company as produced at its own units were in fact manufactured somewhere else, the court said.

A case had been filed in the court against the company in 2012 by the District Food Safety Department after samples of mustard oil, salt, pineapple jam, besan and honey produced by Patanjali had failed quality tests at FSSAI-certified drugs and food testing lab located at Rudrapur. 

The products were found to be in violation of sections 52 (misbranding) and Section 53 (misleading advertisement) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and section 23.1 (5) of Food safety and Standard (packaging and labelling) regulation.

(Feature image source: PTI)

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