After holding as extracted above, the Court directed deletion of various
portions in Chapter 9 – „Mystery 1‟, Chapter 16 – „Mystery 2‟, and Chapter
25 in the following terms:
―181. In view thereof, all the respondents in C.M.(M)
556/18 & C.M.(M) 557/18 are restrained from
publishing, distributing and selling the BOOK i.e.
―Godman to Tycoon‖ The Untold Story of Baba
Ramdev, ISBN No. 9789386228383 in any manner,until they delete the following : (a) At Pages 69 to 70, Chapter 9 Mystery 1 : The Ally‘s
Murder (Entire Chapter 9).
"A day after the Asian tsunami swept up the
shorelines of fourteen countries', killing nearly a
quarter of a million people, an intriguing event
occurred in Kankhal. In the darkening winter evening
of 27 December 2004, a scuffle broke out in the singlestorey Yogananda Ashram, home to Swami
Yogananda, the man whose licence had enabled Divya
Pharmacy to function and grow for eight years since
its inception in 1995 till 2003.
Yogananda's neighbours are cagey about
discussing it even today but they say they heard raised
voices coming from his house that eventful evening. No
one imagined, though,, that Yogananda — the lonely
man who lived without a telephone or even electricity
— was being knifed to death. One Vasant Kumar Singh
discovered his lifeless body shortly after and called the
police. Along his lifeless body shortly after and called
the police. Along with other neighbours, the young
Tarun Kumar went in with the police. 'I remember it
still. He was there in that dark room when I went in …
• lying in a pool of his own blood.
As mentioned earlier, in 2003 Divya Pharmacy
had abruptly changed the vaidya on its registration
from Swami Yogananda to Sri Saty Pal Singh,
Yogananda is said to have had a falling out with
Ramdev‗s increasingly powerful enterprise but the
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