Court extends Nithyananda’s police remand
Despite coming up with a range of theatrics, from feigning illness and periodically slipping into meditation, self-proclaimed godman Nithyananda was remanded to two more days of police custody by a Ramanagara court near here on Wednesday.
The CID has reportedly been able to locate Tamil actress Ranjitha, with whom Nithyananda was shown in secretly recorded videos having sex with, somewhere in Thiruvananthapuram.
It is learnt that while in hiding, Nithyananda made 174 calls to Ranjitha. Sources, however, said they would examine her as a witness.
Although subjected to rigorous interrogation during the last six days, Nithyananda has part resisted and part cooperated with CID sleuths. He has named most of the women ashramites who attended to him in his private quarters and who had access to his room at the Bidadi ashram.
But the CID sleuths have investigated other aspects of his activities and is closely following up on the non-disclosure agreements two of his close devotees signed with several ashramites for indulging in tantric sex, watching pornography and other forms of perversions.
Apart from interrogating Nithyananda, the police have also examined Lenin Karuppan, alias Dharmananda, whose secretly videographed sex romp of the godman blew the lid off the unsavoury activities in the ashram, and some other former devotees. The police continue to be in search of Vidya Vishwanathan, alias Gopika, suspected to have knowledge of the godman’s sexual relationships with other women.
Sources said the police was getting “sketchy information” from certain quarters in Tamil Nadu about the godman’s sexual activities. The inputs, though valuable, might not amount to forming any complaint related to alleged rape and unnatural sex with female and male ashramites, the sources said.
