Oct 03, 2024 11:56 AM IST
Madras High Court directed the Tamil Nadu government to submit report on all the criminal cases registered against Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation.
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation moved the Supreme Court on Thursday challenging the Madras high court order that sought a report from the Tamil Nadu government on all criminal cases registered against the foundation.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the foundation, has sought an urgent hearing from the top court and the Centre has responded in favour of it.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said, “we will likely stay the HC order because it has been passed without any prima facie reason”. The CJI’s bench will also interact with the two women, who were allegedly brainwashed and detained by the foundation, in his chamber before issuing an interim order.
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A strong contingent of around 150 police personnel and government officials inspected the foundation’s Yoga Centre in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore on Tuesday to inspect the conditions at the centre. The team was headed by Coimbatore district superintendent of police K Karthikeyan and District Social Welfare Officer R Ambika. “The officials held an enquiry with the persons at the foundation,” a senior police official said.
What Madras High Court said?
The high court was hearing a habeas corpus petition of a retired professor, who alleged that his well-educated daughters, aged 42 and 39, respectively, have been brainwashed by Jaggi Vasudev to live at Isha Yoga Centre in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore permanently.
In his petition, the professor alleged that some kind of food and medicine is being administered at the centre to his daughters, which made them lose their cognitive abilities.
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The foundation argued that the court could not expand the scope of this case, as the daughters have admitted to living at the centre out of their own volition.
“You will not understand because you are appearing for a particular party. But this court is neither for nor against anybody. We only want to do justice to the litigants,” said the high court before passing an order asking the Tamil Nadu government to submit a status report on pending criminal cases against the foundation.
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