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An FIR was registered on Sunday against Yoga guru Ramdev for allegedly promoting enmity and outraging religious feelings over his provocative remarks at a meeting of seers in Rajasthan's Barmer district, police said. The FIR was registered at Chauhatan police station based on a complaint filed by a local resident, Pathai Khan, a police officer said. According to Chauhatan police station SHO Bhutaram, the case was registered under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence), 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) and 298 (uttering, words, etc., with deliberate intent to wound the religious feelings of any person). At the meeting of seers on February 2, Ramdev accused Muslims of resorting to terror and abducting Hindu women while comparing Hinduism to Islam and Christianity. He alleged that the two faiths were ...
Yoga guru Ramdev has "irreparably" damaged the government's efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and people creating confusion during such a time are "anti-national"
Upset over Ramdev's remarks on allopathy, members of the Federation of Resident Doctors Associations are seeking an open apology or action against the yoga guru
The defamatory video contained excerpts of a book on Ramdev that were ordered to be deleted by the high court in September last year.
Last yr, he allegedly said if he could he'd behead people refusing to say Bharat Mata Ki Jai
He also took a dig at Congress over plans to elevate Rahul Gandhi as the party president