of His Divine Holiness’ Passport
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29 April 2010 : While His Divine Holiness had been unlawfully arrested, and still in prison, Gurumurthy, the mastermind behind the Extremist Hindu Forces, used his influence in the Police to have His Divine Holiness’ passport revoked.
Nithya seeks MEA intervention to get his passport back S ex-scandal tainted godman Swamy Nithyanan-da on Monday appealed to the ministry of ex-ternal affairs to reverse the decision to impound his passport. He contended that the order of the passport officer, Bangalore, issued on April 29, vio-lated the principles of natural justice as it did not mention the grounds for impounding the passport, thus violating the fundamental rights of citizens listed in Article 21 of the Constitution. The taint-ed swamy also claimed that he had not been of-fered a chance to make his case, as the show cause notice that was issued ahead of the impounding of the passport took a long while reaching the ashram — it was dispatched by Speed Post on April 29, but was received only on May 3, when the swamy was away in north India.
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