The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed Tamil magazine Nakkheeran to remove allegedly defamatory content about preacher Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation, Bar and Bench reported.

Justice Subramonium Prasad passed the interim order, rejecting an application by the magazine that sought the rejection of Isha Foundation’s plea.

The Isha Foundation contended that Nakkheeran published content accusing it of misconduct and suggesting that some persons were being held at its premises against their will.

The foundation argued that the articles were published despite the fact that the Supreme Court in October 2024 closed proceedings in a habeas corpus plea. The petition had been filed by a man who alleged that his two daughters were being held captive inside the foundation’s centre in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore.

A habeas corpus is a petition through which courts can order the authorities to bring a person before it to verify if they have been detained.

The Supreme Court had observed at the time that the two women were adults and had been living at the foundation of their own free will. The purpose of the father’s petition had been fulfilled after the women said that they wanted to live at the centre, the court had held.

It had, however, said that the closure of the habeas corpus plea does not prevent the police...

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