2011-02-24 International volunteers illegally assaulted and
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imprisoned at Bengaluru
24 February 2011
Police officers illegally assaulted and illegally imprisoned volunteers of Nithyananda Peetham who were residing in Bengaluru Aadheenam, violating basic human rights and their right to information. The real aim of the police, as was evident in their complete abuse of power, was to threaten and end the life of His Divine Holiness Paramahamsa Nithyananda.
Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda, an international volunteer from Malaysia, who had been volunteering in the security division, was cruelly attacked by assassins who were disguised among a few CID (Crime Investigation Department) 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 and looking for a particular lady devotee, but they did not have any authorization document to search the property.
Sensing something wrong with the behavior of the officials, Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda started recording the activities of the officials who were trying to enter the campus with his phone for self-protection. One officer noticed this, grabbed Sri Rishi Nithya Dayananda's phone and threw it to the ground to destroy it. 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 the next 3 weeks.
Watch the video Related to this Incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv04dfPFBdQ&t=9s
As if this wasn’t unlawful enough, that same night, a group of police officers trespassed into the Ashram and arrested four monastery residents illegally without an FIR (first information report), let alone an arrest warrant.
What was the crime of the Ashram residents? When there was no formal or informal complaint against the Ashram residents, why did the illegal arrest happen? What was the purpose of the arrest? This was never made clear by the police and to this day no official statement has been made.
It was clear: The one they came for was His Divine Holiness, but upon not getting their hands on Him, as compensation they assaulted His Sanyasis, residents, volunteers and property to permanently damage His organization and mission. They continued to tarnish Paramahamsa Nithyananda and His organization by creating media slander; the arrests became “justification propaganda” for past and future attacks. The general public would only hear about the arrests, not about the illegalities behind it. The officials cruelly abused their power and illegally imprisoned innocent volunteers.