The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued contempt notice to the founder of the Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on a plea against him for blaming the Centre and the panel for damaging Yamuna floodplains by allowing his NGO, the Art of Living (AOL), to hold a cultural extravaganza.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar issued notice to Ravi Shankar today while seeking his reply before May 9, the next date of hearing.
Ravi Shankar had blamed the government and the NGT for permitting AOL to hold the function and said the event could have been stopped in the beginning itself if the river was so fragile and pure.
