Police assassination attempts and atrocities on international residents in Aadheenam🔗

Police officers were brutal and atrocious to the volunteers of Nithyananda Peetham in Bengaluru Aadheenam, violating basic human rights and the right to information. The real aim of the police, as was evident in their threats to the security of the people, was to threaten and end the life of His Divine Holiness.

Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda, an international volunteer from Malaysia, who has been volunteering in the ashram (monastery) in the security department, was cruelly attacked by disguised assassins who were among very few CID officials. The whole group was actually a mob looking to lynch Paramahamsa Nithyananda. In a gross violation of the human rights law, CID officials visited the aadheenam claiming that they were gathering information, but they did not have the correct authorization to search the property.

Sensing something wrong with the behavior of the officials, Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda started recording the activities of the officials trying to enter the campus with his phone. Immediately, one officer noticed this, grabbed Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda’s phone and threw it to the ground. He then caught Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda’s hand and started twisting it, badly damaging it. Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda suffered a wrist injury. Doctors gave him a sling which he needed to wear for weeks together.

As if this wasn’t unlawful enough, that same night, a group of police officers barged into the Aadheenam, and arrested four monastery residents illegally without an FIR (first information report which implies a lodged complaint), let alone an arrest warrant.

What was the crime done by the Aadheenam residents? When there was no formal or informal complaint against the Aadheenam residents, why did the illegal arrest happen? What was the purpose of the arrest?

They came clearly for the life of His Divine Holiness, but upon not getting near Him, they assaulted His volunteers and property to bring damage in some way to Him and His mission.

Nithya Dayananda

Ma Rishi Nithya Dayananda, wife of Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda, expressed her horror at seeing her husband treated so inhumanely in a foreign country. She was completely helpless in front of the atrocities of a few people claiming to be the legal representatives in a foreign country. She could not imagine why something brutal this like this was being done to her husband. Her purpose of coming to India from Malaysia, was to live a spiritual life, and she saw that it was on the verge of being shattered by such illegal and unreasonable attacks.

The attack by the Police grossly violates the human rights of every one to be treated equally in the eyes of the law. (Article 7 of the UN Human Rights Declaration)

July 2011