08 June 2012: A second press meet and brutal attack - Attack 3🔗

The murderous attack of the previous evening had to be told to the people. On 8th of June 2012, at 11 am, the disciples called for another press meet. No sooner did they commence the meet than a few disguised Karnataka Navanirman Sene elements stood up demanding Kannada language from the disciples in spite of a running Kannada translation already in place. From the "planned" meagre demand, they quickly moved to a verbal tussle and physical assault in no time.

The next day disciples gave a second press meet to talk about the huge attack that happened the previous day. All the male disciples on stage were beaten and female disciples were molested by the Karnataka Navanirman Sene who had barged in. All the women on stage were treated like prostitutes and dragged to the police station, by the Karnataka State Police.

Another ruthless attack ensued on the residents. The attackers savagely picked up any object they found to kill the residents - the metal line dividers and furniture. After causing enough physical assault, bloodshed and abuse, they left the monastery with shouts of criminal threat to the residents - "Tell your Nithyananda to leave Karnataka! Run away from here, else the next time, you will not be alive..."

The media filmed and broadcasted the attack with the “Big Lie.”

A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”. Reich Minister of Propaganda of Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels the Propaganda minister, consolidated the Big Lie Propaganda technique as, “The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

TV Channel and other media-channels

Police complaints were given by the aadheenam residents, but no police-action taken against the militant tyranny. It was the most painful for the disciples to go through every attack with no action from the police. It meant that their life was open to attack any time, and not worthy of protection.

International volunteer trying to save himself from violent Karnataka Navanirman Sene.

Karnataka Navanirman Sene Militants using vulgar language for female monks.

Karnataka Navanirman Sene Militants open their shirts and molest female residents.

Karnataka Navanirman Sene Militants points knive at female residents.

(Left) Ma Nithya Shantananda Swami asking the militant to stop. (Right) Karnataka Navanirman Sene militant person slapping Ma Nithya Shantananda Swami.

Although female sanyasis (monks) like Ma Nithya Shantananda Swami were victimized and beaten by the militants, police arrested them instead of the militants.

Police arm-twisting Ma Nithya Shantananda Swami and dragging her to jail for illegal detainment. Entire happening openly justified on national television channels.

It was not a ‘Law and Order crisis’, it was an Attack

The Strategy of ‘Law and Order crisis’

The masterplan of the State-sponsored multi-pronged attack

Maintaining Law and Order (L&O) is the primary ‘uncompromising’ responsibility of any government for public safety and peace. Anyone accused of breaching L&O, is deemed an enemy to the State and threat to public safety. Such persons are denounced by the citizens, and in legal course can be imprisoned as a high-risk for the public, State, and even the nation. The penalties for L&O related issues are stricter and include higher severity punishments with longer terms than for other crimes.

The State-Media-Mafia nexus, employed the “Law and Order crisis” provisions and wielded it to extreme convolution, twisting it’s application to eliminate His Divine Holiness.

The Executioners and their roles

VICTIMS of the criminal attacks in their private property, and needed protection! It was not a “law and order” situation caused by His Divine Holiness, but a “genocidal attack” on His Divine Holiness and His disciples by the media-mafia!

This attack by the media-mafia was projected as a Law and Order situation around His Divine Holiness. Multiple such attacks were ensured. The media broadcasted these attacks every time as a severe “Law and Order situation”. Thus the strategy of dehumanising His Divine Holiness as a “Law and Order disrupting criminal” was ESTABLISHED.

• Once established, the STATE ILLEGALLY DETAINED His Divine Holiness through a series of unlawful actions and orders.

08 June 2012: 16 victims arrested, attackers were left scott-free - Attack 4

The attacker who planted the bomb, claims to be victim The next leg of the multi-pronged attack was already in motion. Ajith Hanumakkanavar “had a complaint filed” in the local police station against His Divine Holiness and residents of the Aadheenam (monastery community). Ajit claimed that his belly was slapped and he was told to leave the premises; he feared that his office could be visited by the monks, so they should be arrested!

THE TRUTH: Not a finger touched Ajith in ‘his’ whole planned attack during the press meet. And ofcourse, the second charge, even Ajith knew was meaningless. The Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka had subsequently (In Feb 2013) quashed his complaint saying, “it was an abuse of the process of the court”.

The illegal mass arrest At 3.00 pm the same day (8th of June 2012), while the residents were still recovering from the morning attack, oblivious to the FAKE complaint filed by Ajith against them, Ajith barged into the aadheenam gates with the police escorting him. He identified to the police, 16 Sanyasis and devotees who had protected His Divine Holiness with their lives during the previous day’s attack. It included the female sanyasis (monks) whom Ajith himself had groped. All 16 of them who were actually victims, were meticulously hunted down inside the aadheenam and arrested by the “law-enforcing” police as “accused” in the FAKE complaint filed by Ajith.

One media reporter could not have had such a clout over the State machinery. It was a bigger hand - S.Gurumurthy who had instructed his party members in the State government to execute the atrocities.

In the 48-hour attack, the police arrested the victims instead of the attackers. No action was taken on the multiple complaints filed by the victims either.

Crimes of the State Police

(29 March 2010) The headline says - “Paisa feko, tamasha dekho”. The literal meaning is, “Throw money, and watch the drama show.” It implies: bribe the fake witnesses and enjoy the fake trial. On 8th June 2012, during illegal detainment and interrogation of the female monks, the Bidadi Police reminded them that they could be rewarded with monetary compensation if they gave a false complaint.

(Left) : Helpless female monks taken to police station for pressurizing them to give false statements against their leader. (Right) : The Police officers refuse to accept the complaint against Ajith of Suvarna Television. Ajith had planted an Anthrax letter bomb to kill His Divine Holiness and also had molested female monks to divert attention.

Ma Nithya Bhaktikananda Swami a senior Sanyasi recalls the moments of illegal arrest:

“I was on stage for the second press meet that happened on 8th of June 2012 at the Bengaluru Aadheenam. Inside the meditation hall, the Karnataka Navanirman Sene elements were sitting and we did not know. They had hidden their yellow scarves and entered the hall. They just like that started a row out of nothing. They were so rough and tough and we were so unassuming and righteous.

It was such a gross mismatch. I have seen such scenes only in movies. They were simply beating us for more than an hour before leaving the campus. We couldn't come to terms with what was happening to us. What right had they to enter and break our hard-earned things? What right they had over our life? And what had we done to them? Nothing! How can one television channel reporter Ajith have so much hate against us? It was of monstrous proportions.

At around 3 pm, I was sitting in the front part of the meditation hall and working on my laptop while the campus was being restored. The police was still in the campus. Residents and volunteers started restoring the meditation hall, putting things back in its place and removing the damaged items. Suddenly a police officer walked towards me. He called me to go with him. I closed my laptop and naively followed him, thinking he was taking me to identify the miscreants of the attacks.

He took me to a waiting van. A lady officer clicked my photograph and gestured to get into the van. There, I saw a few of the residents already sitting. I asked them what was going on. They did not know.

Soon, a few more residents joined us. And the van started. The van went for internal rounds inside the Aadheenam picking more residents, who simply left what they were doing and boarded the van like me. The van left the campus. We had no clue what was happening, where they were taking us, what was their agenda....etc. On the way, we suddenly started getting the feeling that we were being arrested. It became an unspoken undercurrent feeling amidst most of us. We were almost sure of it by the time we reached the police station.

We got off at the police station and were held in custody! 16 of us! We were the victims but they were arresting us! Who complained? It was Ajith of Suvarna Television. So he attacked us the previous day and filed a complaint against us immediately! It was all pre-planned! We could not believe to what extent a persecution could be stretched. Ajith came to the police station and interacted briefly with the policemen. They seemed to know each other well. We later came to know that Ajith had actually identified 16 of us who were seen prominently protecting Swamiji and given instructions to arrest us against his fake complaint which had Swamiji also in it even though Swamiji was not even present on the scene!

It was the most shameful thing that the perpetrator of the crime was pointing at us and the police was following his “instructions”. Ajith’s case was later quashed by the Court with a severe reprimand of him for having filed such a baseless complaint. But we had to go through the persecution before it was quashed the following year.”

Leader of Karnataka Navanirman Sene, Bhimashankar (left) openly showing his illegal relationship with the State Police (standing behind him).

Karnataka Navanirman Sene waving their hand on national television cheering as they succeeded. They cheer and share stories with each other how they physically assaulted the males and sexually molested the female aadheenam residents and yet no action was taken on them. The State Police gave them complete protection while they carried out their acts of perverted violence and finally succeeded in getting disciples of His Divine Holiness arrested.