Emanuel Tunai
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The awful turning point for me first started when my very good friend, V.K. Narasimhan, told me that ashram and Trust authorities plus Janaki Ramiah,did a terrible thing. They knew and could prove that the police had allowed two murderers of a German devotee lady (in her new room within the ashram some time previous to 1993) to escape in return for revealing where the money they murdered her for was concealed (about Rs. 80,000.-). The police took the money themselves and this was the ashrams lever on them. This is known in civilized countries as criminal blackmail. The case of the German lady devotee was never cleared up, her only crime having been not properly to conceal while returning through the village the money she had withdrawn from the State Bank in Puttaparthi to pay for improvements to her new room. SSB had left the ashram the day previously, and the ashram authorities cleared the place of all foreign visitors and residents within a very short time in an attempt to conceal the incident, as is their usual practice after murders and such crimes in the ashram.
The present writer has been involved with SSB for decades and has spent much time with him at his ashrams, which is why it took me so many years since 1993 to come to accept and adjust to the otherwise wholly unbelievable facts of the incident described above. I swear by all the scriptures one cares to name that in my account of this I am speaking the truth as I know it. Those facts I could not - for the sake of his own security - make known until after his decease. The top officials and various MBA students who are more or less in the know are still surely prisoners of their circumstances, often fearing to break faith with such a socially and psychically powerful and imperious godman. Few of them may so far be free of the bewitchment and fear of possible retribution to dare to speak out, but it is hoped that they will do so eventually. I know that most regular devotees are in much the same boat, afraid to speak freely about many facts and their doubts, and are, for many personal reasons, unwilling to look beyond SSBs good words and works, of which there admittedly also have been and still are many.
Meanwhile, let us offer our sincere condolences to all those sorely bereaved and maltreated in this matter, who have been allowed no recourse to justice or compensation of any kind, and not least to the countless followers of SSB who have sacrificed so much time, energy as well as money with such good intentions and trusting faith (not forgetting that the good social services and works are actually financed and carried out by them). The grieving process and self-liberation from the person and symbol of SSB as the Godhead made unavoidable by the major conflict between his words and his actions - may be long and painful. However, greater self esteem, confidence and further realization can be achieved through realizing the known facts and what they imply about SSBs dishonesty, deceit and despicable behaviour.
The obvious tactic of the ashram in conspiracy wioth the police and of Sai Baba himself has been obfuscation. This has been extremely successful in India, even deluding several of its Prime Ministers and Presidents, though the facts are all officially unaccounted for and all investigations were cut off before they were conclusive! Nonetheless, a fairly brief and consistent outline of the main events can be given, even though it is overwhelmingly evident that the police were shown to have lied, falsified evidence, seriously neglected their duty as investigators, and lied again. The Sathya Sai Central Trust, ashram authorities and the Sai organisation remained as silent as the grave about everything! Above all, no one who reads this with an open mind can deny the depth of compromised involvement of top Sai officials and especially one major culprit, SSBs younger brother, Janaki Ramiah, who insisted that there had been an attempt on SSBs life! After handling the police and the executions, he soon took over the effective running of SSBs chief affairs through his management (with his brother Sais consent) of the huge assets of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, apart from his own many millions obtained through property speculation.
Reconstruction of the Course of Events from Available Evidence
On the night in question SSBs four attendants on the ground floor of the temple fought with four persons who possibly tried to force their way in to see SSB when they were denied access (two of the four attendants were as usual to sleep in and guard the temple that night). The exact cause of the fighting, other than that it was an intrusion, and whether or not the killing of any of the defenders was planned, is not definitely established. The outcome was that two attendants were killed in a knife battle, two seriously injured, while a 14-year-old student who was with SSB in his 1st floor bedroom escaped unhurt. Bolting a door, the student boy (or Baba) set off a loud siren, both leaving the room hurriedly. How the intruders got into SSBs quarters through the bolted door remains unclear, but once in they bolted the exits to the whole apartment area and sealed themselves within, if not on the assumption that SSB was still there at least to protect themselves from the angry crowd. (Why a 14-year old minor was in SSBs bedroom so late is a question well worth answering too! The boy has apparently been spirited away from investigators ever since.)
One policeman was nearby at the outset, it was reported (also by himself initially), but he fearfully left the scene. No police appeared for at least half-an-hour after the alarm siren went off, but meanwhile villagers, residents, foreign visitors and about 60 of SSBs students surrounded the temple. After about an hour or so of apparent stand-off, during which the police and Seva Dal servitors eventually cordoned the main crowd off from the temple and compound, some of SSBs MBA students, maybe including some villagers, apparently broke in the door of SSBs apartment to get at the four intruders. It was alleged by many that some villagers assisted some of SSBs MBA students to tie up the four with rope and beat them brutally. The photographic evidence (see below) tends to bear this out, but the intense atmosphere of fear among villagers and residents has precluded public statements on this matter.
In Brindavan in 1994 I was casually informed by an elderly and devoted Bangalore businessman, a contractor who worked on the hall at Brindavan (whose name I withhold for his sake) and whose close relative he claimed was there at the time, that SSB was standing for some time behind the Prashanti temple where some women devotees and a number of students who had heard the alarm bells in the police station arrived. He thought Sai Baba may have told the crowd (who by at least one inside account tied up the intruders and beat them to death), 'Do not harm them'. The police staggered drunkenly onto the scene only after a very long time. However, almost all other reports state that Baba went along the first floor balcony to a room near or within the garage annex, where he remained until the whole incident was over.
Subsequently, according to a consistent eye-witness of the whole affair (a bank official interviewed shortly thereafter by the BBC), the younger brother of SSB (Janaki Ramiah) had a ten-minute discussion with SSB and Col. Joga Rao in the room at the opposite end of the temple where Baba had fled (the garage annex). The MBA students who had tied and allegedly also beaten the four intruders, left when the police very belatedly arrived, allegedly led by an inebriated officer. Directly after this, the bank employee eye-witness reported, Janaki Ramiah ordered the killing of the four intruders whom he claimed had tried to murder Baba, saying:- Vallani kattesinaru, champeyundira.. ( They are tied. Now kill them).
What may we suppose was discussed between SSB, his brother, and Col. Joga Rao for 10 minutes. while the four intruders lay bound and bloody in SSBs bedroom? Whatever it was, not long afterwards it became the bloody slaughterhouse shambles appeared in SSBs bedroom suite.
Then came the total police clampdown and cover-up that would have been a Keystone Cop satire had it not been so sinister. What emerged as the best substantiated reports from the whole confused mess was that, after shooting the four alleged assailants bound bodies (either heavily injured or already dead), the police must have moved the bodies and rearranged clothing etc. This was patently to try to make it seem the shooting was done in self-defence by them as claimed in the Inspectors First Incident Report. This report was contradicted by later official investigations, and on some points even by SSB in a later discourse. According to the analyses of independent lawyers (notably New Zealand barrister Warren C. Pyke) and Indian criminal investigators, the report was certainly faked on many points and the scene of the crime had been rearranged. Some of the evidence remains uncertain or inexact, also because the results of further investigations were eventually kept largely secret through direct governmental intervention by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister (almost certainly on direct instructions from the Home Minister, S.B. Chavan)
Contradictory to the local police Inspectors statements is that of V. Jagadish, who observed the broken door before the police arrived, and further that of D. Peddireddy, who said that he broke the wooden plank that was holding the door and saw the deceased in the room after he did so. The absence of injury to the Inspector and the minor nature of injuries to the other policemen does not fit with their story of a struggle and their need to open fire. From photographs made the morning after, one can see that the policemen who shot the four in a long hail of dozens of bullets (heard by many devotees at the time) had no visible injuries from the alleged struggle with knife-armed young men (just a small plaster on the forehead of one). The position of the deceased after death and the very close-range gunshot wounds do not fit the police version. The nature of the gunshot wounds to the deceased is entirely consistent with a very close range discharge. Nor do the number of rounds discharged and position of bullets fit with the police account of shooting in self-defence at specific close-range targets. Independent and reputable witnesses, Balachandra, Sahani, Vatsava, all say the shots were heard at
1 a.m., which fits with the post mortem report as to time of death, but contradicts the police evidence of 11:30 p.m. by a full 1½ hours. Further, the photographs of the corpses taken in SSBs room show many details that cannot be explained if the police account were true. One photo shows a bloody police lathi (baton), an unexplained length of heavy hosepipe on the floor and two heavy bloody poles on SSBs sofa (probably used for stretchers to bear some of the corpses to their arranged positions in a different room), for which there is no police explanation. The distribution of blood in the rooms and on the bodies is often at odds with the police version of where and how the victims died. Remains of rope (allegedly used to tie the victims, then cut away after shooting) are seen in another room! And so on the police seriously bungled the remainder of the investigations, avoided interviewing witnesses, gathering obvious evidence etc., most likely so as to try to cover their own tracks. In this they were signally unsuccessful
One answer to part of the enigma I tried to adopt was that SSB has to allow human affairs to take their own course so as not to usurp their will. However, SSB has repeatedly denied that human beings have any kind of 'free will' and that 'only God (he means himself) has free will'. I do not accept this wholly indefensible primitive doctrine. I know that SSB delegates responsibility to his workers, which can involve a considerable degree of own judgement and will power, which they may sometimes use wrongly. One person alleges that Baba, while avoiding the mob in the garage attached to the temple, was asked by officials what to do and told them to do as they liked. This is unconfirmed, but could well be correct. It has not been refuted - by any officials or SSB himself. They keep as silent (like any Sicilian muerta) as the grave of their victims and hope all will eventually blow over.
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by Robert Priddy British. (b.1936.) Retired. Researched and taught philosophy and sociology at the University of Oslo 1968-85. Formerly leader of the Sathya Sai Organisation in Norway for most of the 17 years he was a member. Prolific author of spiritual articles , such as in more than 2 dozen articles in Sanathana Sarathi, and author of the pro-Baba book Source of the Dream published in USA (Samuel Weiser Inc.) and India (Sai Towers).
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Those who wish to view the mass of documentary evidence that makes crystal clear that this case has been covered up and investigations quashed by most irregular means can purchase: Murders in Sai Babas Bedroom by B. Premanand. Price India Rs. 400/-, Overseas US $40/- (free postage). Publ. by B. Premanand. 11/7 Chettipalayam Road, Podnadur. 641 023 Tamil Nadu, India. Send money order or bank draft for copies.
see my UP-DATED ARTICLE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE 1993 MURDERS
FOR FURTHER INFO. AND DOCUMENTATION ON THE MURDERS GO TO: http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/moremurders.htm
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/ExtraMurders.htm
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Please go to the Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization
(or Spanish version PETICIÓN PÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES DE SATHYA SAI BABA Y SU ORGANIZACIÓN A NIVEL MUNDIAL)
The awful turning point for me first started when my very good friend, V.K. Narasimhan, told me that ashram and Trust authorities plus Janaki Ramiah,did a terrible thing. They knew and could prove that the police had allowed two murderers of a German devotee lady (in her new room within the ashram some time previous to 1993) to escape in return for revealing where the money they murdered her for was concealed (about Rs. 80,000.-). The police took the money themselves and this was the ashrams lever on them. This is known in civilized countries as criminal blackmail. The case of the German lady devotee was never cleared up, her only crime having been not properly to conceal while returning through the village the money she had withdrawn from the State Bank in Puttaparthi to pay for improvements to her new room. SSB had left the ashram the day previously, and the ashram authorities cleared the place of all foreign visitors and residents within a very short time in an attempt to conceal the incident, as is their usual practice after murders and such crimes in the ashram.
The present writer has been involved with SSB for decades and has spent much time with him at his ashrams, which is why it took me so many years since 1993 to come to accept and adjust to the otherwise wholly unbelievable facts of the incident described above. I swear by all the scriptures one cares to name that in my account of this I am speaking the truth as I know it. Those facts I could not - for the sake of his own security - make known until after his decease. The top officials and various MBA students who are more or less in the know are still surely prisoners of their circumstances, often fearing to break faith with such a socially and psychically powerful and imperious godman. Few of them may so far be free of the bewitchment and fear of possible retribution to dare to speak out, but it is hoped that they will do so eventually. I know that most regular devotees are in much the same boat, afraid to speak freely about many facts and their doubts, and are, for many personal reasons, unwilling to look beyond SSBs good words and works, of which there admittedly also have been and still are many.
Meanwhile, let us offer our sincere condolences to all those sorely bereaved and maltreated in this matter, who have been allowed no recourse to justice or compensation of any kind, and not least to the countless followers of SSB who have sacrificed so much time, energy as well as money with such good intentions and trusting faith (not forgetting that the good social services and works are actually financed and carried out by them). The grieving process and self-liberation from the person and symbol of SSB as the Godhead made unavoidable by the major conflict between his words and his actions - may be long and painful. However, greater self esteem, confidence and further realization can be achieved through realizing the known facts and what they imply about SSBs dishonesty, deceit and despicable behaviour.
The obvious tactic of the ashram in conspiracy wioth the police and of Sai Baba himself has been obfuscation. This has been extremely successful in India, even deluding several of its Prime Ministers and Presidents, though the facts are all officially unaccounted for and all investigations were cut off before they were conclusive! Nonetheless, a fairly brief and consistent outline of the main events can be given, even though it is overwhelmingly evident that the police were shown to have lied, falsified evidence, seriously neglected their duty as investigators, and lied again. The Sathya Sai Central Trust, ashram authorities and the Sai organisation remained as silent as the grave about everything! Above all, no one who reads this with an open mind can deny the depth of compromised involvement of top Sai officials and especially one major culprit, SSBs younger brother, Janaki Ramiah, who insisted that there had been an attempt on SSBs life! After handling the police and the executions, he soon took over the effective running of SSBs chief affairs through his management (with his brother Sais consent) of the huge assets of the Sathya Sai Central Trust, apart from his own many millions obtained through property speculation.
Reconstruction of the Course of Events from Available Evidence
On the night in question SSBs four attendants on the ground floor of the temple fought with four persons who possibly tried to force their way in to see SSB when they were denied access (two of the four attendants were as usual to sleep in and guard the temple that night). The exact cause of the fighting, other than that it was an intrusion, and whether or not the killing of any of the defenders was planned, is not definitely established. The outcome was that two attendants were killed in a knife battle, two seriously injured, while a 14-year-old student who was with SSB in his 1st floor bedroom escaped unhurt. Bolting a door, the student boy (or Baba) set off a loud siren, both leaving the room hurriedly. How the intruders got into SSBs quarters through the bolted door remains unclear, but once in they bolted the exits to the whole apartment area and sealed themselves within, if not on the assumption that SSB was still there at least to protect themselves from the angry crowd. (Why a 14-year old minor was in SSBs bedroom so late is a question well worth answering too! The boy has apparently been spirited away from investigators ever since.)
One policeman was nearby at the outset, it was reported (also by himself initially), but he fearfully left the scene. No police appeared for at least half-an-hour after the alarm siren went off, but meanwhile villagers, residents, foreign visitors and about 60 of SSBs students surrounded the temple. After about an hour or so of apparent stand-off, during which the police and Seva Dal servitors eventually cordoned the main crowd off from the temple and compound, some of SSBs MBA students, maybe including some villagers, apparently broke in the door of SSBs apartment to get at the four intruders. It was alleged by many that some villagers assisted some of SSBs MBA students to tie up the four with rope and beat them brutally. The photographic evidence (see below) tends to bear this out, but the intense atmosphere of fear among villagers and residents has precluded public statements on this matter.
In Brindavan in 1994 I was casually informed by an elderly and devoted Bangalore businessman, a contractor who worked on the hall at Brindavan (whose name I withhold for his sake) and whose close relative he claimed was there at the time, that SSB was standing for some time behind the Prashanti temple where some women devotees and a number of students who had heard the alarm bells in the police station arrived. He thought Sai Baba may have told the crowd (who by at least one inside account tied up the intruders and beat them to death), 'Do not harm them'. The police staggered drunkenly onto the scene only after a very long time. However, almost all other reports state that Baba went along the first floor balcony to a room near or within the garage annex, where he remained until the whole incident was over.
Subsequently, according to a consistent eye-witness of the whole affair (a bank official interviewed shortly thereafter by the BBC), the younger brother of SSB (Janaki Ramiah) had a ten-minute discussion with SSB and Col. Joga Rao in the room at the opposite end of the temple where Baba had fled (the garage annex). The MBA students who had tied and allegedly also beaten the four intruders, left when the police very belatedly arrived, allegedly led by an inebriated officer. Directly after this, the bank employee eye-witness reported, Janaki Ramiah ordered the killing of the four intruders whom he claimed had tried to murder Baba, saying:- Vallani kattesinaru, champeyundira.. ( They are tied. Now kill them).
What may we suppose was discussed between SSB, his brother, and Col. Joga Rao for 10 minutes. while the four intruders lay bound and bloody in SSBs bedroom? Whatever it was, not long afterwards it became the bloody slaughterhouse shambles appeared in SSBs bedroom suite.
Then came the total police clampdown and cover-up that would have been a Keystone Cop satire had it not been so sinister. What emerged as the best substantiated reports from the whole confused mess was that, after shooting the four alleged assailants bound bodies (either heavily injured or already dead), the police must have moved the bodies and rearranged clothing etc. This was patently to try to make it seem the shooting was done in self-defence by them as claimed in the Inspectors First Incident Report. This report was contradicted by later official investigations, and on some points even by SSB in a later discourse. According to the analyses of independent lawyers (notably New Zealand barrister Warren C. Pyke) and Indian criminal investigators, the report was certainly faked on many points and the scene of the crime had been rearranged. Some of the evidence remains uncertain or inexact, also because the results of further investigations were eventually kept largely secret through direct governmental intervention by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister (almost certainly on direct instructions from the Home Minister, S.B. Chavan)
Contradictory to the local police Inspectors statements is that of V. Jagadish, who observed the broken door before the police arrived, and further that of D. Peddireddy, who said that he broke the wooden plank that was holding the door and saw the deceased in the room after he did so. The absence of injury to the Inspector and the minor nature of injuries to the other policemen does not fit with their story of a struggle and their need to open fire. From photographs made the morning after, one can see that the policemen who shot the four in a long hail of dozens of bullets (heard by many devotees at the time) had no visible injuries from the alleged struggle with knife-armed young men (just a small plaster on the forehead of one). The position of the deceased after death and the very close-range gunshot wounds do not fit the police version. The nature of the gunshot wounds to the deceased is entirely consistent with a very close range discharge. Nor do the number of rounds discharged and position of bullets fit with the police account of shooting in self-defence at specific close-range targets. Independent and reputable witnesses, Balachandra, Sahani, Vatsava, all say the shots were heard at
1 a.m., which fits with the post mortem report as to time of death, but contradicts the police evidence of 11:30 p.m. by a full 1½ hours. Further, the photographs of the corpses taken in SSBs room show many details that cannot be explained if the police account were true. One photo shows a bloody police lathi (baton), an unexplained length of heavy hosepipe on the floor and two heavy bloody poles on SSBs sofa (probably used for stretchers to bear some of the corpses to their arranged positions in a different room), for which there is no police explanation. The distribution of blood in the rooms and on the bodies is often at odds with the police version of where and how the victims died. Remains of rope (allegedly used to tie the victims, then cut away after shooting) are seen in another room! And so on the police seriously bungled the remainder of the investigations, avoided interviewing witnesses, gathering obvious evidence etc., most likely so as to try to cover their own tracks. In this they were signally unsuccessful
One answer to part of the enigma I tried to adopt was that SSB has to allow human affairs to take their own course so as not to usurp their will. However, SSB has repeatedly denied that human beings have any kind of 'free will' and that 'only God (he means himself) has free will'. I do not accept this wholly indefensible primitive doctrine. I know that SSB delegates responsibility to his workers, which can involve a considerable degree of own judgement and will power, which they may sometimes use wrongly. One person alleges that Baba, while avoiding the mob in the garage attached to the temple, was asked by officials what to do and told them to do as they liked. This is unconfirmed, but could well be correct. It has not been refuted - by any officials or SSB himself. They keep as silent (like any Sicilian muerta) as the grave of their victims and hope all will eventually blow over.
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by Robert Priddy British. (b.1936.) Retired. Researched and taught philosophy and sociology at the University of Oslo 1968-85. Formerly leader of the Sathya Sai Organisation in Norway for most of the 17 years he was a member. Prolific author of spiritual articles , such as in more than 2 dozen articles in Sanathana Sarathi, and author of the pro-Baba book Source of the Dream published in USA (Samuel Weiser Inc.) and India (Sai Towers).
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Those who wish to view the mass of documentary evidence that makes crystal clear that this case has been covered up and investigations quashed by most irregular means can purchase: Murders in Sai Babas Bedroom by B. Premanand. Price India Rs. 400/-, Overseas US $40/- (free postage). Publ. by B. Premanand. 11/7 Chettipalayam Road, Podnadur. 641 023 Tamil Nadu, India. Send money order or bank draft for copies.
see my UP-DATED ARTICLE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE 1993 MURDERS
FOR FURTHER INFO. AND DOCUMENTATION ON THE MURDERS GO TO: http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/moremurders.htm
http://home.no.net/anir/Sai/enigma/ExtraMurders.htm
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Please go to the Public Petition for Official Investigations of Sathya Sai Baba and His Worldwide Organization
(or Spanish version PETICIÓN PÚBLICA PARA INVESTIGACIONES OFICIALES DE SATHYA SAI BABA Y SU ORGANIZACIÓN A NIVEL MUNDIAL)
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