117. The illegal mass arrest

At 3.00 pm the same day (8th of June 2012), while the residents were still recovering from the morning attack, oblivious to the FAKE complaint filed by Ajith against them, Ajith barged into the aadheenam gates with the police escorting him. He identified to the police, 16 Sanyasis and devotees who had protected His Divine Holiness with their lives during the previous day's attack. It included the female sanyasis (monks) whom Ajith himself had groped. All 16 of them who were actually victims, were meticulously hunted down inside the aadheenam and arrested by the "law-enforcing" police as "accused" in the FAKE complaint filed by Ajith.

One media reporter could not have had such a clout over the State machinery. It was a bigger hand - S.Gurumurthy who had instructed his party members in the State government to execute the atrocities.

In the 48-hour attack, the police arrested the victims instead of the attackers. No action was taken on the multiple complaints filed by the victims either.

Crimes of the State Police

• The State Police grilled the victims Ajith had chosen.
• The Police rejected any complaint by the victims including the complaint for the anthrax bomb attack.
• They refused to accept the complaints of the female monks of sexual molestation by Ajith and his henchmen.
• Instead they criminally pressurised the female monks to file a false rape complaint against Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
• They reminded them that the state Police DIG (Deputy Inspector General, Crime Investigation Department) D.V. Guruprasad had himself offered monetary compensation for those filing the rape false charges. The monks were helpless .

(29 March 2010) The headline says - "Paisa feko, tamasha dekho". The literal meaning is, "Throw money, and watch the drama show." It implies: bribe the fake witnesses and enjoy the fake trial. On 8th June 2012, during illegal detainment and interrogation of the female monks, the Bidadi Police reminded them that they could be rewarded with monetary compensation if they gave a false complaint.

(Left) : Helpless female monks taken to police station for pressurizing them to give false statements against their leader. (Right) : The Police officers refuse to accept the complaint against Ajith of Suvarna Television. Ajith had planted an Anthrax letter bomb to kill His Divine Holiness and also had molested female monks to divert attention.

Ma Nithya Bhaktikananda Swami Shocked after witnessing Police Atrocities.

Ma Nithya Bhaktikananda Swami a senior Sanyasi recalls the moments of illegal arrest:

"I was on stage for the second press meet that happened on 8th of June 2012 at the Bengaluru Aadheenam. Inside the meditation hall, the Karnataka Navanirman Sene elements were sitting and we did not know. They had hidden their yellow scarves and entered the hall. They just like that started a row out of nothing. They were so rough and tough and we were so unassuming and righteous.

It was such a gross mismatch. I have seen such scenes only in movies. They were simply beating us for more than an hour before leaving the campus. We couldn't come to terms with what was happening to us. What right had they to enter and break our hard-earned things? What right they had over our life? And what had we done to them? Nothing! How can one television channel reporter Ajith have so much hate against us? It was of monstrous proportions.

At around 3 pm, I was sitting in the front part of the meditation hall and working on my laptop while the campus was being restored. The police was still in the campus. Residents and volunteers started restoring the meditation hall, putting things back in its place and removing the damaged items. Suddenly a police officer walked towards me. He called me to go with him. I closed my laptop and naively followed him, thinking he was taking me to identify the miscreants of the attacks.

He took me to a waiting van. A lady officer clicked my photograph and gestured to get into the van. There, I saw a few of the residents already sitting. I asked them what was going on. They

did not know.

Soon, a few more residents joined us. And the van started. The van went for internal rounds inside the Aadheenam picking more residents, who simply left what they were doing and boarded the van like me. The van left the campus. We had no clue what was happening, where they were taking us, what was their agenda….etc. On the way, we suddenly started getting the feeling that we were being arrested. It became an unspoken undercurrent feeling amidst most of us. We were almost sure of it by the time we reached the police station.

We got off at the police station and were held in custody! 16 of us! We were the victims but they were arresting us! Who complained? It was Ajith of Suvarna Television. So he attacked us the previous day and filed a complaint against us immediately! It was all pre-planned! We could not believe to what extent a persecution could be stretched. Ajith came to the police station and interacted briefly with the policemen. They seemed to know each other well. We later came to know that Ajith had actually identified 16 of us who were seen prominently protecting Swamiji and given instructions to arrest us against his fake complaint which had Swamiji also in it even though Swamiji was not even present on the scene!

It was the most shameful thing that the perpetrator of the crime was pointing at us and the police was following his "instructions". Ajith's case was later quashed by the Court with a severe reprimand of him for having filed such a baseless complaint. But we had to go through the persecution before it was quashed the following year."

Leader of Karnataka Navanirman Sene, Bhimashankar (left) openly showing his illegal relationship with the State Police (standing behind him).

Karnataka Navanirman Sene waving their hand on national television cheering as they succeeded. They cheer and share stories with each other how they physically assaulted the males and sexually molested the female aadheenam residents and yet no action was taken on them. The State Police gave them complete protection while they carried out their acts of perverted violence and finally succeeded in getting disciples of His Divine Holiness arrested.