The Supreme Court voiced its worry yesterday over fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) corporations misleading innocent people and gambling with public health, even as it rejected the apology affidavit provided by Patanjali, its MD and co-founder in the misleading marketing case.
“We are not concerned with only these contemnors before us, we are concerned with all those FMCGs and all those companies who are taking their consumers and clients up the garden path and showing them some very rosy pictures of what their product can do for them…and ending up with those people who are paying good money for it, suffering at the hands of their product,” the Bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah said during the hearing.
Sr Adv Balbir Singh, speaking in place of Baba Ramdev, conceded to some extent but suggested that this could be used to create more comprehensive regulations for the greater market and business. But attempts to temper the court’s additional directives with pity were unsuccessful.
Judge Kohli was also heard to address Singh over public health, saying, “These are major fault lines and the victim of these fault lines is not the profit of your companies, but the health of the public.”
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