Nithya's court yatra ends in hospital🔗

Santosh Kumar RB. BANGALORE

Self-styled godman Paramahamsa Nithyananda was on Monday admitted to the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology on Bannerghatta Road, after he complained of chest pain.

Nithyananda was being brought back to the city after producing him before the additional civil judge (senior division) at Ramanagara, when he developed chest pain.

Doctors attending to the tainted swami expressed satisfaction over his health condition and said an

echo cardiogram (ECG) test revealed normal heart condition. However, he was kept under observation, and would undergo a treadmill test on Tuesday morning.

"He will be under observation till the doctors certify him fit to travel," superintendent of police (CID) KN Yogappa said.

Earlier, additional civil judge justice Narayana Prasad extended the police custody of Nithyananda for two more days till April 29. The swami's disciple, Nithya Bhaktananda, aka Gopal Seelam Reddy, was sent to judicial custody. Both the men were produced before the court around 4.30 pm under tight security after their four-day remand period ended on Monday.

Assistant public prosecutor NR Lokesh submitted before the court

Media persons were herded out of the court. Police cordoned off the court premises.

Armed police provided security cover to the tainted godman, who was taken to Ramanagara from Bangalore in a convoy of seven vehicles.

An attempt was made to assault the swami last week in Ramanagara

that the CID wanted to question him for four more days, as the investigators were awaiting the technical report on the compact discs from the FSL in Hyderabad.

He argued that several witnesses, including a Tamil actress, were yet to be interviewed.

The high court of Karnataka would hear a bail application filed by HS Chandramouli, the swami's counsel, on April 29.

In a separate but related development, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, founder of Art of Living Foundation, said in a statement from Cincinnati, US, that Nithyananda had violated the UNAIDS guidelines as well as rules of tantra.

Ravi Shankar said Nithyananda's act had traumatised several people, who had reposed faith on him. [email protected]

Swami Nithyananda has violated UNAIDS guidelines as well as the rules of tantra. Only a householder is entitled to tantric sex. Claiming to be a monk and using so many people for one's pleasure is unpardonable. He should have had one partner and announced himself as a tantric guru. It has caused damage to the faith of people in the institution and traumatised many."

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living

Swamy Nithyananda's ashram in Bidadi wore a deserted look, as most inmates had already left the place.

Some of the inmates, who were still at the ashram, expressed faith in their leader. "We still have faith in swami. He is our hero and our faith in God will save him," an inmate, who refused to identify himself, said.

The occasional visit of news reporters irritated the ashram inmates, who showered abuses on the media persons.

அனைவளைய மகை கண்காட்சி, பழக்கண்காட்சிகள் நடத்தப்படுகின்றன. அடுத்த மாதம் நடக்க உள்ள பழக் கண்காட்சிக்காக, நீலகிரி மாவட்டம் குன்னூர் சிம்ஸ் பூங்காவை அழகுபடுத்தும் பணி தீவிரமாக நடந்து வருகிறது.