Isha Outreach moves Supreme Court against Karnataka High Court decision to proceed with Cauvery Calling case even after removing petitioner

Isha Outreach, the organisation in charge of the Cauvery Calling project, informed the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday that it has moved the Supreme Court against an order passed by the High Court on October 15 last year..On that date, the High Court had decided to treat the plea calling into question Isha Foundation's Cauvery Calling project, as a suo motu petition..Based on the submission of Isha Outreach's counsel, a Bench of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Suraj Govindraj observed in the order,"Respondent 3 (Isha Outreach) has filed a memo stating that order dated 15 October 2020, has been challenged yesterday by filing Special Leave Petition. Hence, for the time being, we grant a time of one month to respondent 3 to move the apex court. List the petition on May 25." .The Court was informed of this development during the hearing of a plea seeking directions to stop Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's Isha Foundation from collecting money from public for the Cauvery Calling project. .On October 15, 2020, the High Court removed AV Amarnathan as the petitioner after he sent a legal notice to the Discovery Channel asking it to stop the telecast of a show about the project. The High Court had noted the fact that the petitioner misrepresented that the telecast will amount to contempt of court..Cauvery Calling: Karnataka HC asks petitioner if he sent legal notice to prevent Discovery Channel from airing programme on project.When the matter was taken up for hearing today, counsel for Isha Outreach sought an adjournment for four weeks, saying that the order dated October 15, 2020 has been challenged through a special leave petition before the Supreme Court. The organization is challenging the High Court's decision to proceed with the case even after the removal of the petitioner..Will you probe allegation of fund raising against Isha Foundation by projecting 'Cauvery Calling' as govt venture? Karnataka High Court to State.Recently, the Court had asked the State government whether or not it was willing to conduct an inquiry to find out whether any money was collected by Isha Foundation by projecting "Cauvery Calling" project as a government venture..The petition filed by Amarnathan alleged that as part of the Cauvery Calling project, Isha Foundation was planting saplings on government land and was collecting money for the same from the public.The plea raised concern as to how the government can allow its land to be used by a private organisation, without studying the pros and cons of the project.The petitioner further argued that the “collection of money from public is disturbing” as the Foundation is expected to collect a massive ₹10,626 crore in donations.