Visit Indian Travel Sites
Goa,
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh,
Delhi,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh,
Himachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Sikkim,
Madhya Pradesh,
Jammu & Kashmir
Karnataka
|
Nithyananda surrenders to Karnataka court, placed in judicial custody for a day | Self styled godman Swami Nithyananda surrendered
before a local court here on Wednesday, and has been placed in judicial custody
for a day. Nityananda, facing charges of rape and sexual harassment by some of
his former devotees, had been ‘missing’ for the past 48 hours and has moved the
court seeking quashing of First Information Report (FIR) filed against his name,
Suvarna News reports. His surrender comes on a day after Bengaluru Police searched
his hermitage and launched an operation to arrest him. He, therefore, appeared
before the Ramanagar Court . The government had issued a high level enquiry against
him on Monday. District Magistrate Ram Reddy said they have recovered some electronic
items from the hermitage. "We have been able to find out some of the electronic
items that have to be deciphered by computer technicians. Tomorrow computer technicians
will be joining our team for further investigation. We have almost searched 10
rooms,” Reddy said. Meanwhile, the Superintendent of Police of the Ramanagar District,
Anupam Aggarwal, said that they have failed to find any clue about Nityananda.
"Today at 5:30 p.m. we started the search operation and we were able to search
only a part of the ashram. We could find out some of the electronic items, which
were suspicious, especially hard disk. We could not find any clue about Nityananda
in those areas," Aggarwal said on Monday. He added that they cannot arrive at
a conclusion until they have searched the whole premises. “No, we cannot say certainly
about this because there are couple of other rooms, there were two or three entries
to enter those rooms. So, till the time we complete our search process, we cannot
rule out the possibility of him being here. We will continue our search operations,”
Aggarwal added. The godman's disciples had summoned two news conferences last
week to clear the air on the matter, but they ended in fracas as Nityananda's
men assaulted the mediapersons.
|
|
|
|
|
|