New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) The Delhi High Court has restrained Patanjali Ayurved from telecasting an advertisement which termed other 'chyawanprash' products as ‘dhoka’ or ‘deception’ and directed it to take down the advertisement from all electronic, digital and print mediums.

The high court said to convey a message through the advertisement that only Patanjali’s product is genuine and others are deceptive, is “incorrect and disparages” the entire class of chyawanprash in general.

Anybody who manufactures an ayurvedic product by following the statute and the scriptures as enlisted in the statute, cannot be denigrated as deceptive, when the statute considers it to be as good and permissible ayurvedic drug, that is, chyawanprash in the present case,” Justice Tejas Karia said.

The high court

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