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Iskcon Guru On Run From Police
BY IRM
INDIA, Sep 18 (VNN) — 1. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special 2. Mayapura Filed False Rape Case
1. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special
Rumours as well as many speculative articles in the Indian newspapers have abounded over the last 2 months regarding the false imprisonment and subsequent death of a devotee from the Calcutta temple. Rather then just give my 'version' of events I have been waiting patiently to obtain the relevant papers and documents from the court, so as to give the REAL picture and the actual FACTS of the situation, and thus lay all the speculation to rest once and for all. As those who read the IRM newsletters know, we pride ourselves on sticking only with DOCUMENTED facts, and not just gossip and rumours.
I also have been in Delhi for sometime as I liaised with our contacts in the central Government to ensure that we definitely receive justice for the death of the innocent devotee, Suresvara Das. Unfortunately, so desperate have our detractors become, that this absence of mine from Calcutta was actually used as evidence first that I had been 'assassinated', and then subsequently that I was in hiding, even though I have never ever been accused by the Police of any crime! Anyway having finished my work I am back here in the Calcutta Temple if anybody wants to come and see for themselves!
The sequence of events which took place are as follows:
a) On 29th June a false rape case was filed by disciples of Jayapataka Swami, on behalf of a Basanti Devi against Suresevara Dasa, a devotee from the Calcutta temple. (For evidence of why the Rape allegation was false, please see next section).
b) On August 3rd, unable to take any more false incarceration, Suresvara allegedly commits suicide. (Some devotees even suspect foul play) However he leaves a diary detailing those who were involved in the conspiracy against him. These are:
1. Jayapataka Swami
2. Satadhanya Das
3. Dayaram Das
4. Birchandra Das
5. Krishnalata Dasi
7) Basanti Dasi and
7) Bhadracharu Das
8) Subhabrata Das.
c) The Prison authorities immediately file a case of abatement to suicide at the Hastings Police station - Case No. 293 of 3/8/2000 ts.120b/306 ipc - against the 8 accused. This is highly significant since the case is now filed by a Government Department, and abatement to suicide is every serious charge carrying a 7 year imprisonment term.
d) The above accused are all inter-linked in this conspiracy. Jayapataka Swami is the Guru who runs Mayapura. Satyadhanya Das is the convicted child molester who has been given power of attorney to act for the entire GBC in the case against the Gurus and the GBC filed in the Calcutta High court, and also acts as a general 'legal' man for Mayapur. Dayarama is one of the senior disciples of Jayapataka Swami, and the Head Manager of Mayapura. Birchandra Das and His wife Krishnalata Dasi, are the Jayapataka Disciples who filed the false rape case on behalf of Basanti Devi with the help of a lawyer, and run the Mayapura satellite center in Calcutta, which is situated at 31 Lake Avenue. The case filed at the police station ends:
"Writer: Krishna Devi Dasi
the pen of Krishna Devi Dasi wife of Bir Chandra Das
31, Lake Avenue,Calcutta"
Bhadracharu, and Subhabrata Das also help support the running of the 31 Lake Avenue center.
e) The combination of the circumstances surrounding the death, the incriminating diary, as well as the facts surrounding the rape allegation, prompted the court to order that the 8 accused should be questioned, and crucially that they be stopped from fleeing the country, which means that their passports be confiscated. The relevant court order is given below:
"Court Order Dated : 07.09.2000
Seen the petition filed today. Investigating Officer is directed to take effective steps in order to prevent each of the accused persons in the Hastings Police Station Case, No. 293 of 3/8/2000 ts.120b/306 ipc from taking any attempt for leaving India in the interest of investigation.
Send copy to Investigating Officer for compliance."
[The case referred to is the abatement to suicide case filed by the Prison authorities as stated in paragraph C above]
f) Jayapataka Swami had already fled the country as soon as his name had become public in the diary left by Suresvara. He has also stayed out of the country ever since, and has made no attempts to return to his base in Mayapura, nor is he expected to do so. Rather he is continually on the move, staying well away from India, lest he is picked up by the police for his part in the conspiracy.
g) The Police in charge of the case have written to us officially to seek our co-operation in obtaining information regarding the 8 accused as follows:
"From Additional Officer-In Charge, Hastings Police Station
To Sattvik Das, Vice President ISKCON CALCUTTA
Ref: Hastings P.S. Case no. 293 Dt 3.8.2000
U/S 120B/306. I.P.C.
To comply the order passed by Ld. CMM CALCUTTA on 7.8.2000 while entering a petition filed by you the following particulars are urgently required.
Hence if those are available in your good office, the undersigned may please be intimated forthwith for next course of action:
1. Detailed particulars of all the eight accd persons of the mentioned case who are cited in your petition
2. Their nationality and detailed passport particulars,
Please treat this as most urgent"
h) In the interests of justice and co-operation with the Police, we request our readers to inform us of the following:
i) The passport details of Jayapataka Swami ii) His whereabouts on an ongoing basis. He needs to be tracked to see if he makes any attempt to enter India.
You can send any information and updated reports on sightings of Jayapataka Swami to us here at: adri@cwcom.net. All information will we passed on to the Police.
As the letter from the Police states, "please treat this as most urgent".
Thank You. Justice must be obtained for the needless death of the innocent devotee Suresvara Das, who lost his life as a result of the false imprisonment which was orchestrated by Jayapataka's camp.
2. Rape Allegation Was False
The fact that the original rape allegation was simply a plot masterminded by the Jayapataka camp to try and implicate ME has now been conclusively proven. From start to finish, we find evidence of a conspiracy by the Jayapataka camp to bring forward a false charge against an innocent devotee. Let us look at the facts:
On 29th June the following allegation is filed at the Police station on behalf of Basanti Devi, by Krishna Devi Dasi and Bir Chandra Das, the leaders of Mayapura's satellite center situated at 31 Lake Avenue, :
"Today on 29.6.2000,as usual, after arriving from Orissa, I went to Adri Dharan Das at 3C Albert Road, temple to collect this sum of rs 2000/.
First he refused to give me said money. Then he came out of his inside room and asked me to go to 22 Gurusaday Road,Calcutta 700 019 for this money and ordered that there take the money from Sureswar Das . I with clean heart and belief went to Gurusadya Road to take money from Sureswar Das. In the building at Gurusaday Road, Sureswar lives in a room on 2nd floor. He took me to the room and got me seated and after giving me various allurements and after closing windows and doors, told me that he would enjoy me. I protested to this and told him that I would convey all this to Adri Dharan Das. Sureswar das then told laughingly that whatever I am doing this today I am doing on instructions of Adri Dharan Prabhu.
There is no use in frightening me and after saying this, Sureswar raped me badly. I was shivering with body pain After this, Sureswar put my clothes and his clothes in order and told me that I should not disclose this to any body and threatened me in various ways.He further told that if any body knew this, my money would be stopped., then you would starve with your son and daughter. In this way he detained me in his room for 1.1/2 to 2 hours. After that I managed to escape from Sureswar's room and came to Krishna 's house at Lake Avenue and told her every thing. Krishna's husband Bir Chandra Das requested to go to Ballygunge Police Station and report to Police and asked Krishna to write a complaint as per my version to Police Station." (First Information Report Filed At Police Station)
Immediately even the Police suspected it was false allegation:
FACT 1
She claims that she met me first at the temple. Yet on that day, the temple was full of devotees and volunteers, since we only had 3 days left to prepare our big Ratha-Yatra, the largest in the world, and thus I was very busy and tied up. Thus there are many witnesses who will testify that she did not even meet me that day.
FACT 2
She claims that she was raped for up to 2 hours at 22 Gurusadaya Road.
Now 22 Gurusadaya Road on that day was packed out with Rathayatra Festival workers. They were preparing 10,000 prasadam laddus and painting 300 ten foot by three foot banners. They were also doing mechanical work for the Carts and floats which were required for the upcoming Rathayatra as mentioned.
Thus there were plenty of witnesses and any untoward activity would easily have been detected. She was seen arriving by the security guards at around at 10-30 - 11 a.m. in the morning of the 29th, with her 7 year old son, and then seen leaving around half 'n' hour later.
When leaving it was noted by the guards that as she left she was jolly and smiling, and showed no signs of having had anything happen to her. She made no attempt to flee, no attempts to ask for help, nor was she disturbed in any way, but actually she walked out normally with her 7 year old son, and even greeted the security guards with 'Hare Krishna'!.
Obviously all of this is totally inconsistent with her story that she was taken upstairs and raped 'badly' and was 'shivering with body pain', for up to 2 hours.
FACT 3
Though she was seen leaving at around 11 a.m, she did not report the crime to the Police till 9.30pm in the evening.The Police report states:
"(a) General Diary Reference:- Entry No. 2673,time 21.31hrs
(b) Occurrence of offence:- Day THURSDAY, date 29.6.2000, Time at about 11.00hrs,
(c) Information received date 29.6.2000, time 21.30 hours.
8. Reasons for delay in reporting the complaint:- Nil"
She claims she went to the Jayapataka Disciple's camp in Calcutta after the alleged rape for help. So what was she doing there with them for up to 9 hours? She even states in the Police report above that she has no reason for the delay in reporting the complaint.
FACT 4
In the reports she filed with the police, she actually manages to have MY name registered a total of *SEVEN* times, which is more times than she mentions her alleged attacker, even though she admits I was not even present at the scene of the crime. This again is evidence that the real aim was simply to somehow implicate ME through this false story.
FACT 5
Suresvara is immediately arrested and then he and Basanti Devi are taken to TWO independent hospitals for medical examinations. The Police apppointed medical examiners report as follows:
Report 1 on Basanti Devi
No visible marks of injury on body seen.
1. *** There is no evidence to substantiate that VG (Victim Girl) was subject to forcible sexual intercourse. ***
2. As to recent sexual intercourse will be given after receipt of FSC report on preserved swab + shade.
3. Will be given after receipt of FSL report on preserved swab + shade.
4. No visible mark of injury seen on the private parts.
5. She is well accustomed to sexual intercourse.
Report 2 on Basanti Devi
No external injury detected on her person or vulva.
Clearly this is completely inconsistent with the claim that she was raped 'badly' for up to 2 whole hours, such that she was 'shivering with body pain'. The medical evidence indicates that NONE of this actually happened.
FACT 6
The final nail in the coffin is that that the FSL report referred to above, which looks for traces of semen inside the alleged victim, found that there was *** NO SEMEN *** inside the alleged victim.
FACT 7
On July 24th, Jayapataka sends the following message on the com, giving his support for the false rape allegation, and stating it is definitely true:
"Meanwhile his own devotee raped a devotees widow and although he knows he had sex with her he has publicly gone in the media stating it was a plot against him. [...] As far as I am concerned Yasomati Nandana and Adri are now totally discredited to use an innocent women who is a rape victim as a pawn in ritvik politics is ridiculous and sinful. [...] It is clear that it is a genuine case."
In the same message he also claims that I 'set-up' the rape, which as we have just seen is just a fabrication:
"Adri didn't have to send this woman to Suresvara who was several kilometres away in a secluded place to get her Rs.2000 stipend. [...] She was promised 2 lakhs stipend for her maintenance and instead it was reduced to 2000 per month and when she begged to get it from the lady cashier in the Calcutta temple Adri refused and sent her to this lusty devotee who not only harassed her but forced her to satisfy his carnal desires before giving her the Rs.2000 stipend." (Message sent by Jayapataka on Com, July 24, 2000 4:57 AM)
Thus Jayapataka's hand in this crime is clearly there, for he immediately promotes the false allegation, and uses it as a tool to try and implicate me, his arch-enemy - which was the real purpose behind this false rape allegation in the first place.
a) It is also interesting to note how Jayapataka insists the allegation was definitely true, even though he also claims he had nothing to do with the incident.
b) How would he know that it was 'definitely a genuine case', when he had not even seen any of the evidence? We can see he is very eager to promote the result of his handiwork.
c) Also please note how he intentionally misleads the conference of Vaisnavas by stating that the 22 Gurusadaya Road was a 'secluded place' - when he knew very well that it was a hive of frantic activity as preparations were being made for the Ratha Yatra - and that in the daytime there are always persons milling round. He tries to make out that she went to the foot of the Himalayas rather than to the heart of Calcutta city!
Thus the whole complaint is false from start to finish - and was cooked up by Jayapataka's camp to try and somehow implicate me. Having not being able to defeat the IRM philosophically, having not been able to EXPEL them, having not been able to get any joy in the court, - they finally cook up a false allegation against one of our devotees, in the hope of implicating me.
(Indeed so desperate have they become at the fact that even this plot of theirs has now fallen apart and actually rebounded on them, that we have been informed that they even considering storming the temple with 200 goondas!)
Unfortunately their little criminal enterprise has now back-fired on them in a big way, an innocent devotee is dead, and all the facts are now coming back to haunt Jayapataka.
No wonder he is on the run!
Thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter, and please keep your letters, and e-mail addresses of other devotees who should be added to our list, flowing in. A hard copy of our main position paper 'The Final Order' is available on request. All other IRM papers can be accessed through the EDITORIAL SECTION of the IRM website at
http://www.come.to/irm
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