An Uttarakhand court has fined Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Rs 11 lakh for fraudulence. In 2012 the District Food Safety Department had found that many food items such as mustard oil, salt, pineapple jam and honey sold by Patanjali failed quality tests. In fact, many of these items are not even produced by Ramdev’s Ayurvedic units; they are produced by ordinary commercial enterprises and then given Patanjali labels. Such is the Baba’s fraudulence. There are scores of legal cases filed against the godman and his so-called Ayurvedic industry. The Baba is guilty of manifold crimes ranging from misleading people to evading taxes. In 2012, when the godman was asked to pay up Rs 120 crore as penalty for various offences, Digvijay Singh remarked, ““I have seen many frauds in my life but Baba Ramdev takes the cake. He may be occupying more space in media now but I do not visualise Ramdev making an impact on our society for long. Such people do not last long in public life.” Mr S
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