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15 SEPTEMBER 2000
1.
ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special
2.
Mayapura Filed False Rape Case
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
6. 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.
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:
e.
"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: 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.
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, :
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"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:
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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:
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"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!
A hard copy of
our main position paper
'The Final Order' is available on request.
If you would like to receive any of the back issues of the
Newsletter please let me know.
No 1.
Invitation to Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja
No 2.
GBC Lose First Round of Court Case
No 3.
The Story VNN Refused to Publish
No 4.
Poison Theorists Accuse Adri of Complicity
No 5.
Iskcon Continues to Promote Child Abusers
No 6.
Invitation to Malaysia
No 7.
United World Body Formed
No 8.
Does Srila Prabhupada Support Poisoning Theory?
No 9.
PADA Attacks IRM Position
No 10.
PADA Continues to Present False Evidence
No 11.
GBC Funded Video says Ritvik Spiritual
No 12.
Child Rapist Selected by Gurus to Defend their Legitimacy
No 13.
GBC Facing Perjury Charge in Calcutta High Court
No 14.
Sahajiyaism Makes a Comeback in Iskcon.
No 15.
Govt. Minister Inaugurates Bangalore Rathayatra
No 16.
Iskcon Calcutta Triumphs Following Arson Attack
No 17.
Fighting Lies with Truth Not More Lies
No 18.
GBC Resolutions Continue to Provide Laughter
No 19.
Indian Leaders Endorse IRM Position That GBC Confused
No 20.
Convicted Child Abuser Officially 'Returns' To Parampara
No 21.
GBC Chairman Admits ISKCON 'Disintegrating'
No 22.
Krishna Confirms ISKCON Re-Birth
No 23.
Hare Krishna Explosion Begins In New York as IRM Temple Opens
No 24.
IRM Launches Media Campaign to Defend Srila Prabhupada
No 25.
GBC Teaches That 'Living Gurus' NOT Required
No 26.
BBT Admits Books Changed To Fit GBC Philosophy
No 27.
Big Breakthrough For Krishna In Singapore
No 28.
Bangalore Tops World Book Distribution
No 29.
City of New York
to Honour Srila Prabhupada
No 30.
Gurukula Lawsuit Special - The Facts
No 31.
BBC Glorifies Srila Prabhupada to the World
No 32.
Harinama Revived in World Famous Times Square |