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Jaggi Vasudev’s Padma Vibhushan award: Madras High Court dismisses plea to revoke it

Jaggi Vasudev receives the Padma Vibhushan award in 2017 from then President of India Pranab Mukherjee. File photo | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The Madras High Court on Thursday (November 7, 2024) dismissed a writ petition filed in 2017, seeking a direction to the Centre to consider a plea to revoke the Padma Vibhushan award conferred on Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on the grounds that his Isha Foundation was facing multiple charges and court cases.The First Division Bench of Chief Justice K.R. Shriram and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy passed the orders after hearing the arguments advanced by M. Radhakrishnan, counsel for the writ petitioner M. Vetriselvan, and Additional Solicitor General (ASG) AR.L. Sundaresan...

18Oct

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No illegal detention in Sadhguru’s Isha Ashram, Tamil Nadu police tells Supreme Court | Coimbatore News – Times of India

Police team visited the Isha Foundation on Oct 1 for an inquiry. CHENNAI: The two women, Geetha, 42, and Latha, 39, were not illegally confined in Isha Ashram in Coimbatore, according to the written submission by the women monks, who were christened as Maa Mathi and Maayu. The police team, led by assistant Superintendent of Police Shristi Singh, inquired about the two siblings on Oct 2. The two sisters claimed they were in good physical and psychological condition.The issue came to light after Geetha’s father, a retired professor named Kamaraj, filed a Habeas Corpus Petition (HCP) before the Madras high court to produce his two daughters, Geetha and Latha, who he alleged were forcibly detained at the Isha Foundation. He also claimed in his petition that his younger daughter, Latha alias Ma...

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Big Relief To Isha Foundation: SC Stays Madras HC Order Allowing Police Probe

In a big relief to Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Foundation, the Supreme Court on Thursday put a stay on Madras High Court's order that sought a report from the Tamil Nadu government on all criminal cases registered against him and the foundation. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, also comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, sought to inquire about the details from two women whose father had moved the high court alleging illegal confinement at the Isha Foundation. The judges of the bench went into chambers to interact with the two women--who were allegedly brainwashed and detained by the foundation--in private through video-conferencing about facts of the case. "We stay the directions of the High Court to the police," the Court said. The court also co...