After sex-ananda, it is fight-anandas in row
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V Velayudham | ENS Kolar, May 11
EVEN as Nithyananda's sex-capades have sullied the reputation of the saffron robe in Karnataka, two sanyasis bickering over who gets to be principal, were arrested for causing a mob fight in Kolar.
The police resorted to lathicharge at the Ananda Marga Polytechnic College at Malur taluk on Tuesday, when supporters of Swami Acharya Dharma Pranavananda trashed the incumbent principal, Swami Aminishananda Avadhootha.
The fight was triggered when the Kolkata office of the Ananda Marga transferred Swami Aminisha and appointed Swami Pranavananda in his stead, Malur Circle Inspector of Police
Sampath Kumar said.
Swami Aminisha, who refused to give up the principal's post, denied that the Kolkata office had powers to issue transfer orders and claimed there was some major problem with the head office.
When Aminisha refused to step down, Pranavananda and his supporters stormed the Polytechnic. Nanda's supporters reportedly ransacked the office and assaulted Swami Aminisha, who sustained injuries.
Malur police have filed a case and a counter case based on complaints of the two swamis. Eighteen persons, including the monks have been sent to judicial custody. Cases have been registered against four others.
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