22^nd September 2000

1. GBC Declares All Out War
2. Jayapataka Swami 'Fugitive Watch' Update
3. Jayapataka Swami Makes More False Statements
   
    

Last year on the 14th February 1999, the GBC began on a path that shocked not only the whole Indian Yatra, but also the movement worldwide, when they voted to expel a number of devotees from the movement. This included ISKCON Temple Presidents and others who between them had rendered over 150 years service in ISKCON.

They were of course expelled for their belief that Srila Prabhupada and NOT they, is the Spiritual Master for ISKCON. Our response was immediate and effective. We filed a case in the Calcutta High Court against the entire GBC body and all the movement's Gurus, stating that they had not obeyed Srila Prabhupada's final directive on initiations for the movement. Immediately, within days of our filing, the GBC backed down. The same brave souls who had unanimously decided to expel us, decided on 27th March 1999 to rescind their expulsion.

Many leading devotees in the movement severely criticised the action taken by the GBC, adding that the effect of their actions would damage the preaching, especially in India, very gravely. This chorus of disapproval was led by stalwart souls such as Bhima Das, Temple President Bombay, Yasomatinandana Das, Temple President Ahmedabad, Bhakta Rupa Das, Bureau Member, Rasa-Raja Das, Temple President Berkley, Pancaratana Das, Chairman of the Indian Continental Committee and Kadamba Kannana Maharaja, Bureau Member, Devakinandana Das, Bureau Member and Mahamana Das, Temple President Vrindavana.

His Holiness Jayadvaita Maharaja had also warned the GBC before the expulsion, that the course of action they were embarking on was disastrous. He subsequently refused to pay a $500 'war tax' to fight us in the court case in protest. Many of these same devotees have since then been working hard to try and being peace to the situation. They have tried to argue that the main thing is the preaching and the expulsion and the litigation it leads to is not good for the movement. Even Gopal Krishna Maharaja has got involved in these efforts. He tried to claim that since the expulsion had been rescinded, we could now drop our court case.

We however had always maintained that the GBC could and WOULD expel us at any time, and therefore the GBC could not be trusted. Plus we pointed out that these court cases were not filed primarily for protection but to re-instate Srila Prabhupada as the Guru for the movement, just as he desired. In this way 'peace efforts' have been conducted by these devotees, who as they saw things, were trying clean up the mess which the GBC had created. Things seemed to be progressing in that attempts were made for everyone to work together on the upcoming Kumbha Mela Festival.

From our side we also had not filed many more cases which we had ready.

Being members of the Bureau ourselves, we had clear-cut access to evidence of severe financial irregularities and other mis-deeds, and had we filed such cases, the movement would be completely paralysed.

However all these 'peace efforts' are now in ruins. Having already taken one unilateral and disastrous expulsion decision, the GBC have now taken another. Last week we received a *** 500 *** page document from the GBC Executive Committee, giving a 15 day notice, before expulsion takes places. Quoting *** 35 *** different GBC 'laws' which they claim I have violated, they then go onto state:

They have given a '15 day' notice because legally they are forced to do so. The violations complained of are all related to our belief that Srila Prabhupada is the Guru for ISKCON, and therefore under these grounds, for a *** second time ***, they have issued an expulsion notice.

This action makes a mockery of the efforts the various leaders in India, who were complaining on their internet conference just last week, of the need to resolve these issues peacefully without "confrontation" and 'aggressiveness". It seems that just as last time, they have been kept completely in the dark of these plans, and their input and peace efforts were treated with the same contempt they received the last time the GBC took such an unilateral expulsion decision.

Even non-Ritvik leaders in India have now said that following this act of aggression - "They would be justified in doing whatever they like".

We do not need to say much. We only need to state that our warning that the GBC could not be trusted and their decision to rescind the expulsion was meaningless, has been proven correct. And that any calls for restraint on our part are also now meaningless in the face of this act of provocation. It seems that the GBC are now determined not just to go to war with us, but also with a large part of the Indian Yatra, who were still busy dealing with the previous GBC actions, before being landed with this current bombshell.

1 week before he mailed the expulsion document to us, Ravindra Svarupa, the GBC chairman, sent me the following note:

The GBC's actions are based therefore on the idea that I have been 'missing in action'. This itself stemmed from a false rape case that had been filed by the JPS camp, specifically to implicate me. Therefore a *500* page document listing 35 violations is sent just days before the courts close in India for many weeks for the holiday season. In the meantime Dayarama, Jayapataka Swami's right hand man who runs Mayapura, in anticipation of this expulsion notice has been planning to storm the temple and seize the property. He has ALREADY begun offering devotees the position of "Vice Temple President" of Calcutta!

This expulsion notice just issued by the GBC is the last piece of the jigsaw that ties all these events together, and the plan is now clear  ...

1. Cook-Up a False Rape Case To implicate Me - which at the very least will lead me to flee or keep me disorientated and pre-occupied.
2. Then follow-up with an Expulsion Notice just before the courts close for weeks.
3. Make the notice lengthy, to ensure that even the very little time there is to respond to it will not be enough.
4. Ready a team of 200 thugs to storm the temple as soon as the expulsion takes notice - under the 'cover' that the President has been expelled.

Thus our recent discovery of Mayapur's plan to illegally storm the Calcutta temple with 200 thugs, after having been given the 'green light' by the GBC in the USA to do so, was not a coincidence or a bluff. And the expulsion notice following on from the false rape case is also no coincidence. The length of the expulsion notice at 500 pages, would indicate that this document was being worked on for probably around 1-2 months, which would be shortly after the false rape case and the incarceration of the innocent Suresvara.

Such 'dirty tricks' are a last desperate throw of the dice by a crumbling regime. As the GBC chairman himself stated, the movement is 'disintegrating'. They are facing a $400 million lawsuit. And like any cult in the throes of a 'meltdown', in sheer desperation - they cook up a false rape case, issue another expulsion notice and ready thugs to illegally seize the temple!

To say that as usual the GBC have severely mis-calculated, would have to be a gross under-statement!

The world is completely different to how they planned it..

1. The false rape case has spectacularly back-fired with an innocent devotee dead.
2. Consequently it is Jayapataka - their local GBC man - who is the one in 'hiding', not me!
3. It is Dayarama Das, the agent required to execute phase 2 of their mad scheme, is another accused in the suicide case, and is now being pressured by the Indian Yatra to resign over the false rape case. (See Next Item)
4. And having got wind of the attack by thugs from Mayapura, the temple and its associated properties are now impenetrable. Our licensed gunmen, and our task-force of life members and leading industrialists is ready.

We can only promise that these acts of gangsterism from the GBC will not succeed, just as they have failed previously. Already the first part of their plan has fallen apart with Jayapataka Swami on the run from the Police.

Our responses will be as always, swift and effective. Please look out for details in our next newsletter.

We just wanted to make it clear to everyone, WHO AGAIN has been the aggressor and fired the first shot. However if its a war the GBC want, then its a war they will get!

The reaction to our last newsletter, where we reported the false rape case, and the subsequent abscondment of Jayapataka Swami, one of the accused in the suicide case, has been spectacular. We asked devotees to keep us informed of Jayapataka Swami's movement, and boy have you done that! In an unprecedented act of co-operation and unity over the disgust felt at the death of an innocent vaisnava, ISKCON temples and devotees from all over the world, most of whom do not even accept the Ritvik position, have inundated us with messages of support in our campaign for justice and also with sightings of the fugitive, Jayapataka Swami. He has been seen in Mauritius, the USA, Malaysia, temporarily in Hong Kong, then Australia, and we have now had 2 independent sightings of him in Korea!

The Indian Yatra has also not been slow to act following our revelations.
They have made it clear that someone is lying, and that someone must resign. Having reviewed our water-tight evidence, they have called for the JPS camp to issue a written response. The process is being spear-headed by Bhima Das, who is the secretary of the Bureau - which is the legal entity that controls all the ISKCON properties in India. He stated on the Indian leader's conference:

Jayapataka Swami has also tried to claim that he is not a fugitive:

We therefore asked him, that since this was just 'normal preaching', WHAT was the 'normal' date for this 'normal' preaching tour to end, and when would be the 'normal' date on which he would re-enter India, since there were many interested parties who would be interested to meet him on his return.

Please keep those sightings and information reports coming in. The Police need to be aware when he is likely to try and re-enter India, if at all he does.
Thank you very much.

Jayapataka, beleaguered and on the run, has however attempted a pathetic defence of his position by releasing a lengthy statement to CHAKRA, claiming his innocence. Having proven our case in the previous newsletter in a water-tight manner through independent witness corroboration, medical reports, court documents etc. etc., JPS would need nothing less than the release of some yet unseen solid and substantial evidence to counter this mountain of evidence. In fact he produces not ONE shred of evidence in reply. Rather his statement relies solely on extracts from 2 *newspaper articles*, padded out with attacks on me and the Ritvik position, which do not even have any relevance to the specifics of the case Thus his defence to our mountain of documented evidence is nothing more than 3rd hand reports in the newspapers!! Hardly evidence! And the fact that in this hour of urgency he can not forward any evidence, but rather tries to dodge the issue by scraping the bottom of the barrel by relying only on 3rd hand reports from newspapers, will only *FURTHER* convince many neutral observers of his guilt. We will now show how his statement is just nothing but a smokescreen to cover-up the fact that he has no evidence to counter the water-tight case we have presented. His statements shall be enclosed in speech marks, thus " ":

FACT: Yet newspaper reports state different:

"WARRANTS OUT FOR 8 ISKCON MONKS"

The case of the Iskcon monk's suicide took a dramatic turn on Wednesday with the court ordering the police to arrest 8 monks of the order."
(The Telegraph, 10 august 2000)

1) This proves that the newspaper reports are unreliable and have no bearing on the actual facts of this case. Just this fact alone destroys the whole of JPS's supposed 'defence', since he presents nothing but 2 newspaper reports to try and defend his corner, and this is why we make this point right at the beginning. Thus in order to determine the actual TRUTH of this matter the newspaper articles which JPS relies on have no role to play, and we need instead to see some DOCUMENTED FACTS, like we have presented. Not the 3rd hand accounts and speculation from journalists.

2) This shows that JPS is a hypocrite since he is happy to rest his whole defence on newspaper reports when it suits him, even though he knows they contain many inaccuracies.

3) We never claimed that there were any 'arrest warrants' out on him - only that the Police have a court order that prevents him from leaving the country due the seriousness of the case and his role in it.

FACT: This is what he said on July 24th publicly on the internet:

1. Here he clearly links me to the alleged rape and uses the incident to show how I was involved and have tried to cover it up subsequently.

2.       If he has 'nothing to do' with the rape case, then why has he taken it upon himself to give the alleged details of what happened on the day of the alleged event, and HOW does he know that "it is clear that it is a genuine case"?

FACT: But he left AFTER the appearance of HIS name in the suicide diary was made PUBLIC on August 3rd - which is what we claimed. The order was not made until the 7th August. Once he knew that he had been named, he knew it was only a matter of time before he would be picked up for questioning, and thus he fled.

Well why doesn't he state HOW soon this 'soon' is going to be and WHEN he will return. If it is an organised 'normal' tour as he has claimed, he will know his schedule and when he intends to return.

FACT: Please refer to JPS's statement reproduced above:

1.       If the Police and courts would decide that who is innocent and guilty then why has he taken it upon himself to state that "it is clear that it is a genuine case" and accuse both Suresvara and myself?

2.       If it wasn't something he "needed to even consider" then why did he go public with comments just reproduced above, where he claims to give chapter and verse about what he claims happened, and then pronounce Surevsara and myself guilty?

FACT: I KNEW she was lying, because her case rested on stating that I had sent her to get raped, and yet I had never even MET her on that day, as dozens of witnesses can testify. Yet JPS, DID adopt the one-sided position that the lady was telling the truth and that Suresvara was lying, whilst at the same time claiming he had "nothing to do with the case". A one-sided position which Suresvara claimed in his diary led to him taking his life.

FACT: It is the PRISON authorities who have filed the 'abatement to suicide case' - NOT ME.

FACT: Here we will show that JPS is a straight-forward liar. He claims that 'semen has been SENT for DNA testing'. Yet on July 24th he claimed:

So first he claims that the forensic reports showed that the semen tested POSITIVE as belonging to Suresvara. NOW he claims that such a test has not even been done and we do not know whose semen it is. It is CLEAR THAT HE IS MAKING THIS UP AS HE GOES ALONG. The REAL FACT is that no Police reports or court transcripts have to date even made any mention of any semen. On the contrary the FSL test that looks for semen inside the woman's body came back NEGATIVE. And bail for rape cases are almost as difficult to get as for Murder, due to the seriousness of the offence.

This is ludicrous. Now JPS is claiming that it is 'suspicious' that Suresvara would name people who were all known to him such as the persons who filed the rape case against him, and the persons who have been trying to discredit me from the start. Suresvara even states in his diary that the real purpose of the false rape case was to get ME, and not him.

FACT:

1.       Sattvik has never claimed he is a 'silent spectator'. WHERE has he ever claimed that? This is another famous JPS fabrication. How can he be a 'silent spectator' when a fellow devotee that he has worked shoulder to shoulder with for many years is now dead?

2.       Who petitions the court is not the issue. The order itself was given by the JUDGE - or is JPS claiming that the JUDGE is also a member of the IRM?

FACT: On July 24th it was JAYAPATAKA who pronounced Suresvara and myself Guilty. Whereas it is the Prison authorities, not me, who has filed the abatement to suicide case.

We invite the readers to weigh up the mountain of evidence we presented in our last newsletter, with the NO EVIDENCE that JPS has presented here, and the clear LIES and FABRICATIONS he has added to cover-up his lack of evidence. JPS has failed to successfully challenge even ONE detail of our original report. Though this statement of JPS was meant to aid his 'defence', it has only further CONFIRMED his guilt.

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.

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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
No 33. ISKCON Guru on Run From Police - Suicide Case Special