Asaram Bapu:
Two minor boys of the Asaram Ashram-run gurukul in Ahmedabad were found dead in the Sabarmati riverbed two days after they mysteriously went missing from the gurukul in February 2008. The police booked Asaram Bapu in a criminal case pertaining to attempt to murder last year in December on the basis of a complaint filed by Raju Chandak, a former disciple of Asaram. Chandak was shot at by two persons on December 5 and he sustained injuries on his chest and shoulders. Chandak alleged that he was targeted at the behest of Asaram, as he had testified before the D K Trivedi Commission probing into the death of the two boys.
Premananda
Also known as Trichy Sai Baba, he was awarded life imprisonment in 1994 for two terms on the charges of multiple criminal offences including rape and murder.
Premananda, who reportedly had powerful supporters in the AIADMK, had not only raped many of the inmates of his ashram at Trichy but also carried out crude medical terminations of some of the consequent pregnancies with the help of a couple of associates.
He was also charged with the murder of an engineer who had opposed the nefarious activities at the ashram.
The Facts about the Criminal Case against Swami Premananda
True Story of the case against Swami Premananda by Aruljothy Achyuthan
“... My whole life changed and I became a victim - not of Swami Premananda, but of the police and those whom they influenced...
They tortured us and beat us severely with their hands and with sticks to make us say Swamiji molested us. ... Their sole motive was to force us to say that Swamiji raped us and did other awful things to us. They pressured us into signing blank papers and they wrote on them what they liked. Some girls were so badly beaten that they fainted...”
The DNA Tests Affair - Interview with Dr. Wilson J. Wall
“... When I say that the accused has not fathered this foetus, what I mean to say is that there is not even a chance, or even an infinitesimal chance of him being the father.
...Someone is trying to set-up Swami Premananda. The DNA case is a fabrication from start to finish. This deception throws a terrible shadow over validity of DNA fingerprinting if now there are scientists who are prepared to misuse it to find the innocent guilty.”
The Murder Case by Ella Combé
“... the judge was not interested in the truth and not at all in what I had to say... The witness for Swamiji are not fools, nor partial witnesses, nor are they 'wishful thinkers' as stated by the Honourable Judge ...We are intelligent, logical and caring human beings who would not be prepared to support a murderer and a rapist in a mass conspiracy to set him free...”
Human Rights violations in India - findings by Amnesty International
“... Torturing suspects has become part of the police’s daily routine throughout India, where hundreds, if not thousands of people have died from beatings in recent years and women are regularly raped in jail cells. The torture and deaths continue because police know there’s hardly any chance of the long arm of the law touching them – even if they kill the victim and the truth is revealed...”
True Story of the case against Swami Premananda by Aruljothy Achyuthan
“... My whole life changed and I became a victim - not of Swami Premananda, but of the police and those whom they influenced...
They tortured us and beat us severely with their hands and with sticks to make us say Swamiji molested us. ... Their sole motive was to force us to say that Swamiji raped us and did other awful things to us. They pressured us into signing blank papers and they wrote on them what they liked. Some girls were so badly beaten that they fainted...”
The DNA Tests Affair - Interview with Dr. Wilson J. Wall
“... When I say that the accused has not fathered this foetus, what I mean to say is that there is not even a chance, or even an infinitesimal chance of him being the father.
...Someone is trying to set-up Swami Premananda. The DNA case is a fabrication from start to finish. This deception throws a terrible shadow over validity of DNA fingerprinting if now there are scientists who are prepared to misuse it to find the innocent guilty.”
The Murder Case by Ella Combé
“... the judge was not interested in the truth and not at all in what I had to say... The witness for Swamiji are not fools, nor partial witnesses, nor are they 'wishful thinkers' as stated by the Honourable Judge ...We are intelligent, logical and caring human beings who would not be prepared to support a murderer and a rapist in a mass conspiracy to set him free...”
Human Rights violations in India - findings by Amnesty International
“... Torturing suspects has become part of the police’s daily routine throughout India, where hundreds, if not thousands of people have died from beatings in recent years and women are regularly raped in jail cells. The torture and deaths continue because police know there’s hardly any chance of the long arm of the law touching them – even if they kill the victim and the truth is revealed...”
ARTICLES AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Desecrating the Divine by Swami Durgananda, Sri Lanka
“...Swamiji himself was the perfect example of what he was guiding all of us to be. Yet it took me awhile to really understand that he was perfectly celibate...”
Between Truth and Falsehood by Heike Saranya Tarrutis, Journalist Germany
“The case of Swami Premananda - How the thoughts and the behaviour of thousands can be manipulated by malicious, false information. ...”
Avatar by C.V. Vigneshwaran, former Supreme Court Judge, Sri Lanka
“...You should not calculate that I am suffering because I stay in prison. I am only in God’s consciousness. Wherever I am, I will remain with that thought only. Prison punishments will not change the state of my mind...”
Religious Leaders Speak About Swamiji (quotes)
Swami Premananda Replies To The Question “When Will You Come Out?”
“Many devotees and spiritual friends are writing letters to Swami and asking him when he would come out. In June 2005, Swami replied ...”
An Age-old Story in 2005 by Gaurishwari (Sophie), Belgium
“... Seeing him, so radiant, jolly and humble, and seeing all what he did, talking with the devotees, listening to them, giving them advice, cooking for all the people, making jokes, I did not believe that the multiple rape and murder for which he was accused were true...”
My Revolutionary Guru by Nirmala Devi Mataji, Switzerland
“...In the Ashram I never felt that women were a lower race. On the contrary, women were given a lot of respect...”
Ladies and Men are Equal by Durga Devi Mataji, Sri Lanka
“Our funds to run this big institution were frozen and rice rations were stopped. With great difficulty we ladies used all our resources to get supplies for all in the Ashram and to see that the children had necessities ...”
Share International Archives: Swami Premananda - an Avatar imprisoned
“An inspiring report on the work and tribulations of a famous spiritual Teacher...”
Justice for Swami Premananda
“...The thousands of people who know Swami Premananda are outraged and deeply disturbed by the unusually severe sentence given by the New Delhi Supreme Court on 5th April 2005...
“...Swamiji himself was the perfect example of what he was guiding all of us to be. Yet it took me awhile to really understand that he was perfectly celibate...”
Between Truth and Falsehood by Heike Saranya Tarrutis, Journalist Germany
“The case of Swami Premananda - How the thoughts and the behaviour of thousands can be manipulated by malicious, false information. ...”
Avatar by C.V. Vigneshwaran, former Supreme Court Judge, Sri Lanka
“...You should not calculate that I am suffering because I stay in prison. I am only in God’s consciousness. Wherever I am, I will remain with that thought only. Prison punishments will not change the state of my mind...”
Religious Leaders Speak About Swamiji (quotes)
Swami Premananda Replies To The Question “When Will You Come Out?”
“Many devotees and spiritual friends are writing letters to Swami and asking him when he would come out. In June 2005, Swami replied ...”
An Age-old Story in 2005 by Gaurishwari (Sophie), Belgium
“... Seeing him, so radiant, jolly and humble, and seeing all what he did, talking with the devotees, listening to them, giving them advice, cooking for all the people, making jokes, I did not believe that the multiple rape and murder for which he was accused were true...”
My Revolutionary Guru by Nirmala Devi Mataji, Switzerland
“...In the Ashram I never felt that women were a lower race. On the contrary, women were given a lot of respect...”
Ladies and Men are Equal by Durga Devi Mataji, Sri Lanka
“Our funds to run this big institution were frozen and rice rations were stopped. With great difficulty we ladies used all our resources to get supplies for all in the Ashram and to see that the children had necessities ...”
Share International Archives: Swami Premananda - an Avatar imprisoned
“An inspiring report on the work and tribulations of a famous spiritual Teacher...”
Justice for Swami Premananda
“...The thousands of people who know Swami Premananda are outraged and deeply disturbed by the unusually severe sentence given by the New Delhi Supreme Court on 5th April 2005...
Kripaluji Maharaj
Ram Kripal Tripathi aka Kripaluji Maharaj, at whose ashram near Pratapgarh in UP 63 people died in a stampede last week, was charged with kidnapping and rape in two cases in Nagpur in 1991. He was acquitted after the witnesses turned hostile. He was arrested in 2007 after a Guyanese woman in South Trinidad filed a rape case against him.
Anup Kumar Sahai
A self-proclaimed godman in Ghaziabad, he was booked on Sunday for abducting his cousin. According to a complaint filed by Subha Srivastava, mother of the victim, the accused along with his brother Ashok Kumar Sahay abducted her daughter Priyanka Srivastava on February 15. The self-proclaimed godman has been booked under sections 363, 313 and 366 of the IPC which pertain to kidnapping and forcing a woman to undergo abortion without her will.
Swami Jayendra Saraswati
The influential Kanchi math Shankaracharya was arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police in Mehboobnagar in Andhra Pradesh in November 2004 in connection with the murder of a former accountant of the math.
Santosh Madhavan:
The temple priest-turned-astrologer wanted by the Interpol - was arrested in Alappuzha in May 2008. Apart from a Rs 50 lakh fraud case that has a Dubai-based businesswoman as the complainant, Madhavan, who had turned himself into Swami Amritachaitanya presiding over a posh ashram and flaunting high connections in the state's political circle and the bureaucracy, was also charged with raping a 15-year-old girl repeatedly.
Swami Paramhansa Nityanand
The founder of the Nityanand mission, which claims to have 1,000 branches across 33 countries, has been untraceable since certain Tamil TV channels recently aired a video which allegedly shows him in a compromising position with a Tamil actress.
Nityanand, who has ashrams in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Puducherry, hails from Tamil Nadu and has a sprawling ashram in Bidadi, 30 km from Bangalore.
He claims to lead a worldwide movement for meditation and peace. Lenin Karuppan, a former disciple, has said that he shot the video to expose the swami.
Lenin has alleged that his life has been under threat from the swami, adding that he also suspected foul play behind the death of a woman inmate a year ago.
In the complaint filed with Chennai City Police Commissioner T Rajendran, Lenin, who claimed to be an inmate of the ashram in Bangalore since 2006, said the swami used to lure young women devotees claiming that he was the reincarnation of Lord Krishna.
Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale:
Shiv Murti Dwivedi alias Sant Swami Bhimanand Ji Maharaj Chitrakoot Wale (39), a self-styled godman, was arrested by the Delhi Police last month on charges of operating a high-profile sex racket involving former airhostesses and students.
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