‘Swamy Nithyananda is on a spiritual tour’ Police told Karnataka HC in a plea for cancelling his bail. He has absconded from India.
Karnataka| This was in response to the direction passed by the court on January 31 to serve notice on Nithyananda in a petition seeking cancellation of bail granted to him in a rape case of 2010
DSP, Balraj B, who is the investigating officer in the case, filed a report before the court stating that the notice issued on Friday was served on Kumari Archanananda an aide of absconding accused.
It was also mentioned by him that Nityananda is not available as he is on a ‘Spiritual Tour’.
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Kumari filed an affidavit stating that the police had forced her to accept the notice after she informed them that she cannot serve the notice to Nityananda, as his whereabouts are not known to her.
Justice Cuna expressed his displeasure at the police.
“Is this the first time you are serving a court summons? How do you say this is effecting and complying with directions of the court? It means that you have forced her to come to the court. You are playing a game”, the judge said.
According to Live Law, Nithyananda went missing from India last November following a case of kidnapping and torture of children in a school run by him in Gujarat. Allegedly, he has moved to Ecuador and has set up his own “country” named Kailasa in one of its islands.
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