On 4 August, a district court in Delhi passed an order granting an injunction on the book, Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev, by the journalist Priyanka Pathak-Narain, published by Juggernaut Books. In the book, Pathak-Narain recounts her investigation into Ramdev’s rise from a yoga guru in Haridwar to founding and running the Patanjali group, India’s second-largest fast-moving consumer goods company. She writes about how the godman secured prime slots at devotional channels such as Aastha TV; his role in the anti-corruption movement of 2011; as well as the crimes that appear to surround him—including the mysterious deaths of his two associates, Rajeev Dixit and Swami Yogananda, and the disappearance of his guru, Shankar Dev.
Juggernaut’s response to the ex-parte order, released in a statement to the press on 11 August, is below.
On 2 August 2017, The Caravan published an excerpt from the book, titled, “Is Patanjali’s Desi Cow Ghee Even Cow Ghee?” The excerpt is available here.
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