A Delhi court has restrained Juggernaut Books from publishing From Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev after the yoga guru and businessman himself filed a petition against it. The injunction also bars Amazon and Flipkart from selling the book – written by Priyanka Pathak-Narain – in both print and online formats, the publisher said in a blog on Thursday.
Ramdev’s petition said that he had received calls from devotees and also noticed the “irresponsible, false, malicious content” from the book on social media. “Certain content has been added without evidence and verification,” the plea claimed, further accusing the defendants in the case of adding controversial material in the book to enhance sales.
The court of the ACJ-CCJ-ARC (East) at the Karkardooma District Courts in Delhi. Juggernaut said they had complied with the order issued on August 4, after receiving it on August 10.