On July 9, Asokan had told the apex court that his unconditional apology to the apex court over his “damaging” statements in an interview to PTI, where he had answered queries about Patanjali Ayurved Ltd’s misleading advertisements case, has been published in various publications.During the hearing on May 14, the bench had posed some tough questions to Asokan over his “damaging” statements against the court in an interview to PTI and said, “You cannot sit on a couch giving an interview to the press and lampooning the court.”The court had then made it clear that it will not accept his affidavit tendering apology at that stage. Expressing displeasure over Asokan’s comments a day before the top court was slated to hear the matter, it had sought his response on an application filed by Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, which had urged the court to take judicial notice of the statements made by him.In an interaction with PTI editors on April 29 for its programme ‘@4 Parliament Street,’ the IMA president had said it was “unfortunate” that the Supreme Court criticised the association and also some of the practices of private doctors.
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