38. The naive monks collect money from devotees

25 February 2010 : After the physical assault, life-threat and grabbing of money the previous day by Lenin and his aides, Pranananda was forced to arrange the extortion money to reach him in Chennai.

"Pay now, before it is too late," warns Sridhar

26 February 2010 : Sridhar furiousouly threatened Pranananda that he was delaying things and that if he delays further, all of them will be destroyed.

The double agent - Sridhar - grabs his cut and escapes

27 Feb 2010 : Pranananda and the administrators of Paramahamsa Nithyananda, handed over a partial amount collected from devotees (25 lakhs) to the extortionist Sridhar as a partial fulfilment of the demanded amount. They told Sridhar that they could gather only that much money under the circumstances and told him to hand over the morphed images to them in its original created medium. Sridhar then promised Pranananda that he will talk to Lenin and his aides and close the matter smoothly. Soon after, Sridhar vanished.