Indian police arrest 'godman', to be charged to court

Indian police arrest 'godman', to be charged to court

Wednesday, November 19, 2014 8:26 pm


BARWALA, 2014 (AFP) – Police on Wednesday arrested a guru after a violent stand-off with thousands of followers at his sprawling ashram in northern India, where the bodies of four women and a child have been found.

Supporters of self-styled “godman” Rampal Maharaj, who is wanted on a series of charges including conspiracy to murder, had guarded the ashram for days armed with stones, petrol bombs and other weapons after a court ordered his arrest.

Police finally detained him late Wednesday, more than 24 hours after they stormed the heavily guarded ashram using water cannon and tear gas.

rampal maharaj: arrested

rampal maharaj: arrested

Ranjit Singh, a local police spokesman, told AFP the 63-year-old had been taken away from the ashram in an ambulance and would be sent for medical checks before appearing before a court.

More than 100 people are being treated in hospital after clashes between followers and police who forced their way into the compound 175 kilometres (108 miles) northeast of New Delhi, where Rampal was hiding out.

SN Vashisht, the director general of police for Haryana state, said earlier Wednesday that officers had found the bodies of four women and a child in the ashram.

The child appeared to have died of natural causes but it was unclear how or when the four women lost their lives, and a post-mortem will be performed on their bodies.

Another woman died after being taken to hospital apparently suffering from a heart condition, Vashisht said.

It remains unclear how many people were holed up in the ashram with Rampal, but thousands have poured out of the 4.8-hectare (12-acre) compound since police stormed in on Tuesday.

“There could still be between 3,000 and 4,000 people inside the complex,” local police chief Hisar Satender Kumar Gupta told reporters outside the ashram after the arrest.

“We are making announcements for them to come out and take buses.”

Several people said they had to fight their way out of the ashram, while police claimed they had been used as human shields to protect the guru.

“What started as a trickle hasn’t yet stopped and we have dropped off around 10,000 people at nearby bus and train stations,” assistant police superintendent Jashandeep Singh said of the followers.

“The people who left the ashram mostly said that they were being held against their will, as a shield for the guru against any police action.”

– Deadly 2006 clashes –

Police sought Rampal’s arrest after he repeatedly refused court orders to appear to answer charges including conspiracy to murder, inciting mobs and contempt of court.

They accuse him of ordering his disciples to fire on villagers during clashes in 2006 in which one person was killed and scores injured.

Rampal, a former engineer who considers himself an incarnation of the 15th-century mystic poet Kabir, denies the charges, according to a statement on his website.

He claims his hundreds of thousands of followers across India have had chronic illnesses cured and “ruined families have again become prosperous” by devoting themselves to his teachings.

Disciples must give up alcohol, smoking, meat, eggs, adultery and gambling, while singing and dancing is banned along with worship of “any other god or goddess”.

Born in a village in Haryana state to a family of farmers, Rampal obtained a diploma in engineering and later worked at the state’s government’s irrigation department.

Rampal went door to door proselytising on behalf of a seer called Ramdevanand and, with an ever growing flock of disciples, opened his ashram in 1999.

India has been rocked by several scandals involving immensely popular “godmen”, mostly Hindu ascetics who claim to possess mystical powers. Last year one was charged with sexually assaulting a schoolgirl.

For many Indians, gurus play an integral role in daily life. They say they offer a pathway to enlightenment in return for spiritual devotion and often give donations to ashrams, temples and charity projects.


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  • HEY PEOPLE OF INDIA: WANT A DARSHAN OF AN AVATAR?

    Satish Chandra

    Selected Blogs: WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom

    How India’s Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More:

    HowIndiasEconomyCanGrowDOTblogspotDOTcom.

    This is a personal ad I placed in Toronto: “I have been in Toronto almost 4 years. I came here from Buffalo to use the local libraries for research. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink alcohol or coffee ( though I have not absolutely sworn off coffee; I don’t believe it will kill me if I drink a cup but I don’t think it is good for my health). We can meet and you can stare at my face as long as you like (I have been told that one look at my face and your whole day is gone because you won’t be able to do anything else though I don’t know how true it is). But I tell people to think of me as an Avatar (Incarnation) since we have to find a category for such a relationship and we might as well make it a true one. And all you want from an Avatar is ‘Darshan’ — a glimpse. A hymn in the Hindi language goes “Man Tadpat Hari Darshan Ko Aaj” which translates into “My heart aches for a glimpse of the Lord”. Believe it or not, when my mother came to visit me in the United States after decades of absence, she said she wanted my ‘darshan’ ( which means a glimpse of the Lord).”

    The following is from my Press Release dated November 15, 2014:-

    PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 15, 2014 COMPEL AMERICANS TO WORK AS INDIA’S SLAVES

    Satish Chandra

    Selected Blogs: WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom

    How India’s Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More:

    HowIndiasEconomyCanGrowDOTblogspotDOTcom

    1. That giving free food to people ‘distorts trade’ and is therefore undesirable is an obscenity only Americans are capable of who use the market as a God to justify genocide but their real God is violence which also determines trade, currency exchange rates and differences in wage rates because of which Mother-Chod modi invites Americans to come make in India rather than making India supreme in violent domination and thus able to compel Americans to work as India’s slaves. India can and must put an end to the Americans and their crimes against India. Neither Americans nor the WTO should have any say in India’s food policy and Indians must not talk to them — Americans — who have to be killed en masse; those who violate this injunction must be punished, if necessary by death.

    India is in a position to become the supreme power in the world right now by destroying Washington and New York with its nuclear warheads already emplaced in these cities with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. But these jokers are more concerned with the trappings of military power than the substance of military (and economic) power. “India’s new defence minister has a $40 billion shopping list” but making India the supreme power by destroying Washington and New York by exploding the nuclear warheads in place there does not require buying a single piece of equipment; Modi and his cabinet work for the C.I.A. which put them in office, not India.

    Air Marshal K. J. Mathews died on May 7 2014 at a young age just as the voting in the 2014 elections was ending. He was killed by RAW for following up my suggestion to emplace India’s nuclear warheads in Washington and New York to be exploded with the warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. Indira and Rajiv Gandhi were both killed by RAW for the same reason — showing my influence. Manmohan Singh on Mathews’ death : “Over the last few years, he had worked closely with my office, and had made an exceptional contribution to numerous projects of immense national importance. I am particularly impressed by his professionalism , dedication and personal warmth. His absence will be sorely felt”, he said [UNI] . The “numerous projects of immense national importance” were the emplacement of India’s nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities. I had urged the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washingon, New York and RAW headquarters. India cannot be liberated unless RAW is destroyed. Air Marshal Mathews neglected to do that despite my urging. Will Lt. Gen. Amit Sharma destroy RAW or will he rather die like Mathews? It requires obeying my orders, not the politicians’. Once the warheads are in place in American cities — as they are right now — Washington and New York should be destroyed at the first opportunity — on a working day during working hours in Washington and New York — with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation; it will not be working hours in New Delhi where RAW headquarters are which have to be destroyed simultaneously but that is alright. There is no need to wait, otherwise you are just waiting for RAW to kill you.

    This is a post I made a couple years ago:-

    “Posted by SatishChandra on Jan 12,2011 20:34 PM

    Stealth or no-stealth, 5th generation or 4th generation, fighter aircraft are as obsolete for India’s defence as bows and arrows. They can be used against neighbors such as Pakistan and China but the United States is EVERYBODY’S neighbor. It has already invaded and occupied Afghanistan, a part of traditional India and will expand its occupation to the rest of the subcontinent. I am India’s expert in strategic defence and the father of India’s strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan means the coast-to–coast destruction of the U.S. by India; see my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy for India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, for what India needs to do. Russia and other white countries are U.S. allies. These are the enemies to destroy. All other enemies will be taken care of automatically. Conventional arms are worthless for destroying the United States. Nuclear arms to destroy the United States with a FIRST STRIKE — this is the key — are cheap and easy to produce with technology India already has. All the money earmarked for fighter aircraft etc., and more, must be pumped into research, development and production of missiles able to deliver India’s nuclear warheads — in the thousands — to the continental United States. India’s missile scientists & engineers should have tested such missiles to their full range decades ago — everything else, including short and intermediate range missiles and missile defence, is secondary and tertiary — but have not done that because of prohibitions by India’s C.I.A.-controlled governments. This must be done on a war footing after first destroying RAW through which the C.I.A. rules India; see my blog. Satish Chandra”

    Since I wrote the above India’s nuclear warheads have been emplaced in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities to destroy Washington and New York with a signal from anywhere in the world with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation.

    Satish Chandra

    2. The following is from my book titled “This Is What The Jews And Americans Have Been Doing” published by Amazon Kindle. No one has done more damage to India than the Jews. Any ‘help’ you get from Israel covers up billions of times greater injury the Jews have inflicted on India. Anyone seeking military ‘cooperation’ with Israel deserves the death penalty and will get it.

    “”India’s greatest scientist and greatest living Indian publicly tortured in Harvard seminar, systematically and totally starved for up to 3 weeks at a time, made semi-starved and homeless and even blind for years, kept under 24-hour audio and video surveillance as well as surveillance of [and interference with] communications and electrical typewriter and computer use, document creation and photocopying, etc., by satellite for more than past 3 decades, systematically harassed and in poverty and neutralised and robbed of his work at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, robbed of crores in his money and property in India by C.I.A.-RAW, forced back into exile in the U.S., all with full cooperation and participation of India’s RAW and India’s C.I.A.-RAW-controlled prime ministers, politicians and media — to keep India poor, weak and enslaved” and how this means the nuclear destruction of New Delhi and then the coast-to-coast destruction of the U.S.; see my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy For India Over U.S.’ which can be found by a Yahoo/Google search with the title; my biography can be found in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, 2014 and earlier editions.” In the past few years I have had India’s nuclear forces emplace India’s nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities, ready to be exploded. Simultaneously destroying Washington, New York and New Delhi (RAW headquarters, South Block and North Block) with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed, with nuclear warheads already emplaced in them, if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation, will immediately make India the supreme military and economic power in the world even before implementing my proposal about money which can make India’s economy grow 30% per year or more.

    In a letter dated July 27, 1982 to Indira Gandhi as prime minister I referred to an act, by American Jews, that was “the equivalent of an annihilatory nuclear first strike on India”. In her reply dated July 29, 1982 she wrote “Dear Mr. Chandra, I have received your letter dated July 27, 1982 and am passing it on to my Principal Secretary to deal with it. Sincerely, Indira Gandhi”. In December, 1982 I wrote to her “There was sudden, terminal, overwhelming violence against me during a seminar at Harvard University and rather similar occurrences earlier… India can expect sudden, annihilatory violence … with nuclear weapons … against its population … unless it can mount a decisively superior force to stop it”. Following my advice, India’s strategic program, including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme and the Centre for Advanced Technology, was started to give India victory in a nuclear war with the United States and because of my influence on her, Indira Gandhi as prime minister was assassinated by CIA-RAW and later when Rajiv Gandhi realized the truth of what I had written to her after the American invasion of Iraq which was the first Gulf War, he was also assassinated by CIA-RAW. In the past few years, I have had India’s nuclear forces emplace nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities and India is now in a position to destroy the United States without being destroyed. In fact, India is in a position now to destroy the United States without itself suffering a single casualty by triggering its nuclear warheads emplaced in Washington and New York with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be similarly destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. Goonda Modi and his Cabinet are determined to keep India in slavery. This will not be allowed.” India’s slavery is the result of Indians killed by the tens of millions and its centers of learning destroyed. India has to kill Americans by the hundreds of millions and destroy Harvard, Yale and all American centers of learning and research.

    Satish Chandra

  • FOLLOW AN AVATAR, SATISH CHANDRA, WHO CAN IMMEDIATELY MAKE INDIA THE SUPREME MILITARY AND ECONOMIC POWER IN THE WORLD

    COMPEL AMERICANS TO WORK AS INDIA’S SLAVES

    Satish Chandra

    Selected Blogs: WhatYouShouldKnowAboutRAWDOTblogspotDOTcom

    How India’s Economy Can Grow 30% Per Year Or More:

    HowIndiasEconomyCanGrowDOTblogspotDOTcom

    1. That giving free food to people ‘distorts trade’ and is therefore undesirable is an obscenity only Americans are capable of who use the market as a God to justify genocide but their real God is violence which also determines trade, currency exchange rates and differences in wage rates because of which Mother-Chod modi invites Americans to come make in India rather than making India supreme in violent domination and thus able to compel Americans to work as India’s slaves. India can and must put an end to the Americans and their crimes against India. Neither Americans nor the WTO should have any say in India’s food policy and Indians must not talk to them — Americans — who have to be killed en masse; those who violate this injunction must be punished, if necessary by death.

    India is in a position to become the supreme power in the world right now by destroying Washington and New York with its nuclear warheads already emplaced in these cities with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. But these jokers are more concerned with the trappings of military power than the substance of military (and economic) power. “India’s new defence minister has a $40 billion shopping list” but making India the supreme power by destroying Washington and New York by exploding the nuclear warheads in place there does not require buying a single piece of equipment; Modi and his cabinet work for the C.I.A. which put them in office, not India.

    Air Marshal K. J. Mathews died on May 7 2014 at a young age just as the voting in the 2014 elections was ending. He was killed by RAW for following up my suggestion to emplace India’s nuclear warheads in Washington and New York to be exploded with the warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation. Indira and Rajiv Gandhi were both killed by RAW for the same reason — showing my influence. Manmohan Singh on Mathews’ death : “Over the last few years, he had worked closely with my office, and had made an exceptional contribution to numerous projects of immense national importance. I am particularly impressed by his professionalism , dedication and personal warmth. His absence will be sorely felt”, he said [UNI] . The “numerous projects of immense national importance” were the emplacement of India’s nuclear warheads in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities. I had urged the simultaneous nuclear destruction of Washingon, New York and RAW headquarters. India cannot be liberated unless RAW is destroyed. Air Marshal Mathews neglected to do that despite my urging. Will Lt. Gen. Amit Sharma destroy RAW or will he rather die like Mathews? It requires obeying my orders, not the politicians’. Once the warheads are in place in American cities — as they are right now — Washington and New York should be destroyed at the first opportunity — on a working day during working hours in Washington and New York — with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation; it will not be working hours in New Delhi where RAW headquarters are which have to be destroyed simultaneously but that is alright. There is no need to wait, otherwise you are just waiting for RAW to kill you.

    This is a post I made a couple years ago:-

    “Posted by SatishChandra on Jan 12,2011 20:34 PM

    Stealth or no-stealth, 5th generation or 4th generation, fighter aircraft are as obsolete for India’s defence as bows and arrows. They can be used against neighbors such as Pakistan and China but the United States is EVERYBODY’S neighbor. It has already invaded and occupied Afghanistan, a part of traditional India and will expand its occupation to the rest of the subcontinent. I am India’s expert in strategic defence and the father of India’s strategic program including the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan means the coast-to–coast destruction of the U.S. by India; see my blog titled ‘Nuclear Supremacy for India Over U.S.’, which can be found by a Yahoo search with the title, for what India needs to do. Russia and other white countries are U.S. allies. These are the enemies to destroy. All other enemies will be taken care of automatically. Conventional arms are worthless for destroying the United States. Nuclear arms to destroy the United States with a FIRST STRIKE — this is the key — are cheap and easy to produce with technology India already has. All the money earmarked for fighter aircraft etc., and more, must be pumped into research, development and production of missiles able to deliver India’s nuclear warheads — in the thousands — to the continental United States. India’s missile scientists & engineers should have tested such missiles to their full range decades ago — everything else, including short and intermediate range missiles and missile defence, is secondary and tertiary — but have not done that because of prohibitions by India’s C.I.A.-controlled governments. This must be done on a war footing after first destroying RAW through which the C.I.A. rules India; see my blog. Satish Chandra”

    Since I wrote the above India’s nuclear warheads have been emplaced in Washington, New York and other U.S. cities to destroy Washington and New York with a signal from anywhere in the world with a warning that additional U.S. cities will be destroyed if there is any retaliation or sign of retaliation.

    Satish Chandra

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