15 June 2012: Bail is granted
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The next day morning, print media carried headlines of the habeas corpus petition. It said the State police were “illegally detaining” Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Just as how the Counsels had wanted, pressure mounted on the State officials to restore their action sooner than later.
The very same day, the Counsels submitted a bail petition to the District Magistrate to release His Divine Holiness. The DM immediately made a fresh order for His release against executing a bond for Rs. 1 lakh and two sureties each for Rs. 1 lakh. The disciples rushed with the fulfilling the formalities, and secured the release of His Divine Holiness. The police didn't leave His Divine Holiness even then. When His Divine Holiness was released from prison and taken in the police vehicle, the local SP (Superintendent of Police) tried to strangle His Divine Holiness in broad daylight. When His Divine Holiness was about to choke to death, the SP released his stranglehold warning him to leave the soil of the State and never step foot back again.
His Divine Holiness was sent to exile in a democratic country where right to live anywhere in the country is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution as well as is a fundamental human right.
Faced with no other alternative, His Divine Holiness left the state of Karnataka. They hounded Him when He tried to even leave South India to move to North India. They followed him to Varanasi, Haridwar, Kumbh Mela. Everywhere he went, they were there and with them the paid media.