She spat on my face and threatened to kill me
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December 23, 2015
“Kalaichelvi, wife of Selvaraj, entered the Thiruvarur Temple complex, along with several other women, claiming that they have rights to the temple and its properties. When I tried to stop them from entering the temple as they did not have permission to do so under the prevalent hostile circumstances, Kalaichelvi began to beat me, and then spat on my face. She assaulted me with a weapon and threatened to “kill me”. Selvaraj's wife along with some other ladies had similarly trespassed on the mutt, and openly came and attacked Sri Nithya Achalananda and others a few days earlier, with blades etc and cut their hands, wrist and face. They even threatened to put a bomb and blow up the whole temple and kill them. This was all an open attempt to evict them from the mutt as Selvaraj and family had illegally occupied important parts of the land and did not want to give up their illegal possession of the land, in collusion with Jnaneshwarananda and Atmananda. However, no action was taken and this gave them even more confidence to continue their violent attacks."
The photos below show the dehumanising attack on Rishi Nithya Shambhavananda.
