The Supreme Court provided relief to spiritual leader Sadhguru in the latest hearing as it halted a Madras High Court order that directed Tamil Nadu police to investigate cases against his Isha Foundation. The Supreme Court has now taken over the case and asked the police to file the status report.

Following the entry of hundreds of police officers into the Isha Foundation's Coimbatore premises on Tuesday, the bench, presided over by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, was hearing the foundation’s challenge against the high court order. The retired professor S Kamaraj claimed in his petition that his daughters Geeta and Lata had been "brainwashed to reside at Isha Yoga Centre" in Coimbatore, leading the high court to order a probe. According to him, the foundation prevented them from staying in touch with their family.

The Isha Foundation refuted the accusations, stating that the two women, who were 39 and 42 years old, had been staying in the foundation voluntarily. This was verified by the two women when they appeared in court. The petitioner and others attempted to trespass under the guise of being members of a fact-finding committee, according to the Isha Foundation.

At today's hearing, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud pointed out that a doctor at the Foundation's Ashram was recently accused of child abuse under the strict POCSO Act and that further investigation is necessary. Isha Foundation representative Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi stated that the reported incidents had not taken place in the foundation’s campus.

In order for the bench, which also included Justice JB Pardiwala, to communicate with the two women, the Chief Justice subsequently inquired as to whether they were online. They were online, according to Rohatgi. The Chief Justice further noted, "The first thing is that you cannot let an army of police in the establishment like this... what we will do is ask a judicial officer to visit the premises, and talk to these two inmates."

Virtually appearing before the court, one of the women reaffirmed their voluntary stay at the ashram. For the previous eight years, she claimed, their father had been harassing them. "We would like to hear both monks in the chamber and come back in five minutes," the Chief Justice stated, pointing out that this was a habeas corpus petition.

Afterwards, the Chief Justice stated that the women had informed them that they were living in the Ashram voluntarily, having joined when they were 24 and 27, respectively. In addition, the court saw those eight years prior, the two women's mother had submitted a similar petition.