{"id":17853,"date":"2025-04-22T10:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17853"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:26:21","slug":"india-shocks-courts-conscience-after-delhi-hc-rap-over-sharbat-jihad-remark-ramdev-to-remove-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=17853","title":{"rendered":"India: ‘Shocks Court’s Conscience’: After Delhi HC Rap Over ‘Sharbat Jihad’ Remark, Ramdev to Remove Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The self-styled spiritual leader told the court that advertisements his company had published against Hamdard National Foundation India’s Rooh Afza product will be taken down.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-styled spiritual leader Baba Ramdev told the Delhi high court that advertisements his company had published against Hamdard National Foundation India\u2019s Rooh Afza product will be taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamdard had moved court against Ramdev\u2019s comment that the company was leading a \u201csharbat jihad\u201d. Ramdev had made this comment in an effort to promote his company Patanjali\u2019s own concentrated squash. Hindutva leaders, politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party and mainstream news channels have attempted to stitch \u2018jihad\u2019 to almost everything \u2013 land, love, and economy \u2013 in an effort to point to non-existent conspiracies by Muslims to convert people into Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bench of Justice Amit Bansal while hearing the suit filed by Hamdard, which formulated the popular Roof Afza product well before India\u2019s Independence, noted according to Hindustan<\/em> Times<\/em> that Ramdev\u2019s comment was<\/a> \u201cindefensible\u201d and something that \u201cshocks the conscience of the court\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a promotional, Ramdev had also indicated that the money earned from Hamdard\u2019s Rooh Afza was used to build madrasas and mosques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without naming Hamdard, he said according to NDTV<\/em><\/a>, \u201cA company uses money earned from selling sherbet to build mosques and madrasas. If you drink that sherbet, mosques and madrasas will be built. But if you drink Patanjali rose sherbet, gurukuls and Patanjali university will be built. Like love jihad and vote jihad, a sherbet jihad is also on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, Ramdev claimed he had not named any brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appearing for Hamdard, Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi told the court that this was equivalent to hate speech and a shocking case of furthering the communal divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representing Patanjali and Ramdev, Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar said that his clients were not against any religion. On this, the court said that this stand should come on an affidavit, according to LiveLaw<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nayar, on the court\u2019s instruction, said that all the impugned advertisements, on print and video, will be taken down by Patanjali and Ramdev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court asked Ramdev to place an affidavit promising no future statements or advertisements in this regard by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Bansal granted five days\u2019 time to Ramdev to file an affidavit, according to the LiveLaw report, and listed the matter for hearing next on May 01.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference Link:- https:\/\/thewire.in\/communalism\/sharbat-jihad-ramdev-high-court-delhi-hamdard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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