Jens Sethi of Munich was sexually molested in a way he commonly does, as reported in the German 'Bild' of Munich on 21st August, 2000 (scan above)
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RESIDENT FROM MUNICH RAN AWAY FROM INDIA -
GURU ALL OF A SUDDEN WANTS SEX
By Wolfgang Ranft
MUNICH - Jens Sethi was young, naive, full of religious expectations. In 1988 this resident from Munich who worked that time in a printing office travelled to India the land of the Hindu Gurus. The 24-year-old man was looking for new spiritual fulfillment. He found, what he was looking for. Sethi succumbed to the fascination of a Guru who was already 62-years old that time: Sathya Sai Baba. "I was totally fascinated by the Aura of Sai Baba", he says today. "I surrendered in a way that I was mainly concentrating on him." Every year he travelled together with his wife for four or six weeks to the Ashram of Sai Baba. During the festival time more than 20 000 devotees gather there.
The fascination remained for Sethi just an external moment as he never could approach the Guru during the first years. This happened only in October 1996 when Sethi finally decided to go to India where he settled down in Puttaparthi close to the Ashram. During the daily pilgrim-meeting he was called for an interview by the Guru, the utmost a pilgrim can expect within the Ashram. Sethi enjoyed his good luck. He, one of those rare devotees, who has been personally selected by the Guru.
But the conversation took a different course than he expected. Sethi appeared together with his wife. The Guru was outraged and has sent the woman away. Alone in the room the old man started to kiss the man from Munich, stroke him and went into the trousers. Shocked but still full of faith and naivety Sethi accepted two other meetings some month later. Again the Guru kissed him and finally touched his genitals.
Only then the young man ran away back to Germany. It took him three years to overcome the crisis and to separate himself mentally from his spiritual guide. During that time he did investigations in the internet and came to know about other young men from UK, Sweden, USA who underwent a fate of similar experiences.
Only this summer he did the final step to escape from the spell under the Guru: He brought a charge against Sathya Sai Baba at the public prosecutor´s office in Munich - because of sexual molestation.
---------------------------------------------------INDIAN EXPRESS, BOMBAY, 23-6-93
No breakthrough yet in Sai Baba case
Express News Service
BANGALORE - Even though a strong contingent of CID sleuths headed by Inspector General of Police Anantha Sayana Reddy and Deputy Inspector General of Police (CID) Ramachandraiah are leaving no stone unturned in the sensational Puttaparthi case, they are yet to stumble on any substantiative clues leading them to unravel the conspiracy.
While a section of the investigating officers are hopeful that they would be in a position to make a breakthrough shortly, others are sceptical about the outcome of the entire exercise as they feel that the very premises from which they have started their investigation is wrong.
They feel that at present the investigation is based on the contents of the First Information Report and the contents of it are not stated to be correct. If the investigation continuous on the same lines, they fear, either the investigation will not lead them anywhere or help only in covering up the conspiracy hatched to do away with Sai Baba.
A section of the middle level investigating officers also opined that the four slain alleged assailants and the two absconding were not the real culprits but someone else. In order to cover up their crime they might have framed up the four innocent boys they opined.
At Bangalore, while the IG Ananthasayana Reddy and DIG Ramachandraiah are jointly working on their own, without giving a hint at what they are doing or what results are accruing, the middle level officers and lower level officers are working as they are being instructed by the bosses. __ _______
THE HINDU, COIMBATORE, JUNE 24, 1993.
A.P. police chief denies suspect was found
From Our Staff Reporter •____________•
ANANTAPUR, June 23: The Inspector-General of Police (CID-Andhra Pradesh), Mr. P. Ananthasayana Reddy, today denied that a search team had found Boyapati Ravi Babu, a prime suspect in the Puttaparthi case, in an unconscious state in the jungles near Prasanti Nilayam; as reported in newspapers on Tuesday.
The Inspector-General told this reporter at Bangalore on Wednesday that the report was 'false' as police and CID teams had checked hospitals in Puttaparthi to find out if there was anyone matching the description of Ravi Babu but none had been found.
Mr. Reddy, while officially denying the report, suspected that "someone who had vested interests" was indulging in this "misinformation”.
For the past three weeks, CID officials from Andhra Pradesh have been camping at Bangalore, trying to pick up threads which would "help them solve the mystery of the June 6 incident inside Prasanti Nilayam.
THE H1TAVADA, NAGPUR, 24-6-1993
Cops 'hired' to silence Sai assailants?
(From K. Shreedhar Rao)
HYDERABAD, June 23: The happenings in the abode of controversial Godman Satya Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, took an intriguing turn, with the revelation that the four assailants, who made an alleged attempt on the godman's life were mercilessly killed by the armed policemen at the instance of some important functionaries of the Satya Sai Trust.
The vernacular press on Wednesday morning, quoting eyewitness accounts, came out with damning evidence against the trust authorities. The news reports alleged that the police had resorted to this, to hush up the truth.
It is said that the four assailants, who locked themselves up in a room in Prashanti Nilayam were shot dead by the policemen, without any provocation. A sincere and serious inquiry by the Government would reveal all the facts that led to the attack on Sai Baba and the subsequent killings. But it remains to be seen, how far the State Government, would pursue the matter.
Eyewitness accounts said the commotion, which began in the ashram around 6.30' p.m. on the evening of June 6, was followed almost immediately by the wailing of sirens. Residents ofthe neighbourhood and even the police believed to have got the impression that some thieves had entered Prashanti Nilayam, an eyewitness, working in a place nearby, told journalists at Puttaparthi. In an attempt to apprehend the 'thieves', four constables entered the Baba's abode. The villagers, who had gathered in front of the ashram, found the gates ofthe Nilayam closed.
The constables, reportedly, headed back for the police station returning later with reinforcements, in the meantime, the assailants had stabbed dead two Ashram volunteers Radhakrishnaand Sai Kumar Mahajan. Two others, Vishnu Bhat and Anil Potle, sustained injuries in the scuffle that ensued. When the gates opened, the villagers rushed in only to find the police 'doing nothing'. The eyewitness said the killers had locked themselves up in a room. The Circle Inspector and a Sub-Inspector were attempting to gain access to the first floor with the help of a ladder since the door to the staircase was locked. An ambulance, summoned by one of the villagers, also reached the spot.
When the villagers, inquired ofthe blood stained Seva Dal volunteers, as to what the matter was kept mum and went back into the Nilayam, it is said. As the police reached the room, where the assailants had locked themselves, there was a temporary lull and observers were told that the assailants were being held captive in the room. Sai Baba was taken to the green room, from the mandir by Seva Dal volunteers and people were asked to get back to their houses. The volunteers thereafter formed a human chain around mandir to bar entry. It is said that the mandir wore the look of a battle field, with rods, sticks and swords strewn all over.
After 11 p.m., police officers held discussions with the authorities ofthe Sai Trust. Several police officers had shuttled between Prashanti Nilayam and the police station.
Around 1.30 in the night the Nilayam reverberated with the sound of gun fire. About 20 rounds were fired the eye-witness told the press. The dead bodies were taken to Penukonda Hospital in the wee hours of June 7. The police officials later cooked up a story saying that the four assailants had attempted to attack the police party and in self defence, the cops had to open fire.
The post-mortem report revealed that all me assailants had died due to bullet wounds. The bullets had penetrated into chests, brain and eyes at point blank range. Only the 303 rifle, has the power to send a bullet right through the body. The inquest also con-finned that there were no other injuries. The circumstantial evidence suggests that the police shot at the assailants, who had surrendered to them, and lends credence to the theory that the assailants were not carrying lethal weapons and never attempted an attack on the police force. It is believed that everything had taken place with the total approval and at the behest of top functionaries of the Satya Sai Baba Trust With the killing of the foursome, there is hardly any chance of truth even coming out
The story that some policemen were injured in the attack by the assailants, has few takers. It is said that when the police attempted to break open the door of the room, where the assailants were hiding, the bolt gave in leaving a gaping hole in the door. Whether it was possible to attack the police through the hole, is a question only Sai Baba can answer.
Attempts too have been made by some interested persons to have special awards presented to the policemen for their heroic deeds. -
INDIAN EXPRESS, COIMBATORE, JUNE 24, 1993
Sai Baba case: suspect not found
Express News Service
BANGALORE - The Inspector General of Police Ananthasayana Reddy has denied the reports appearing in a section of the press that one of the prime suspects in the Puttaparthi case Boyapati Ravindranath alias Ravi Babu, has been found.
It was reported in some newspapers that Ravindranath was found by a police search party in the hilly region near Puttaparthy in an unconscious state and that he was handed over to the CID.
Reddy told newsmen here on Wednesday that inquiries had been made and the police searched all hospitals in Puttaparthy and those in the neighbouring villages to locate the person who was 'found in an unconscious state' but found no clue.
Reddy said the police will not shield anybody involved in the attempted attack on Sai Baba.
Reddy and deputy inspector general of police (CID) Ramachandraiah who are supervising the investigation said that though they had made a headway in the investigation, they were not prepared to disclose any information at mis stage as it may help the culprits tamper with evidence.
THE HINDU, COIMBATORE & VISHAKAPATNAM, JUNE 25,1993.
Key witnesses in Sai Baba case undergo medical examination
From Our Staff Reporter
ANANTAPUR, June 24: The two persons injured in the June 6 incident at Prasanti Nilayam, 85 km from here involving an attempt on the life of Satya Sai Baba allegedly by four of his devotees, were on Wednesday taken to the Government Hospital at Penukonda, 69 km from here, for what officials termed a "formal medical examination."
Anil Patley and Vishnu Bhatt, aides of Sai Baba, convalescing at the Super Specialities Hospital of the Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences at Puttaparthi, were taken to a Government hospital, because it was a "medico-legal case". After examination for about 25 minutes, they were taken back, escorted by Satya Sai Seva Dal volunteers and police.
The two are prime witnesses and are being kept in the intensive care unit of the Super Specialities Hospital. They sustained numerous stab injuries when the four assailants allegedly pounced on them on that dark evening, inside the private chambers of Sri Sai Baba. They have been examined by CID officials on two occasions but what they might have revealed is still being kept a "closely-guarded secret." Police chief denial: The inspector General of Police (CID-Andhra Pradesh), Mr. P. Ananthasayana Reddy, on Wednesday denied that a search team had found Boyapati Ravi Babu, a prime suspect in the Puttaparthi case, in an unconscious state in the jungles near Prasanti Nilayam, as reported in newspaper on Tuesday.
INDIAN EXPRESS, COIMBATORE, 25-6-1993
Notice to Chavan to probe 'bid' on Baba
ENS Legal Bureau
NEW DELHI- A legal notice was issued on Thursday to Union Home Minister S.B. Chavan for instituting within a fortnight an impartial inquiry into the alleged June 6 attack on the Sai Baba of Puttaparthi and as to how the Sai Baba has amassed an empire worth Rs.6000 crore.
The notice sent by Supreme Court advocate K.N. Balgopal on behalf of B. Premanand, Convenor for the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, states that the inquiry must be done by a CBI official or a judge who is not a devotee of the Sai Baba.
The notice points out that Chavan himself is a devotee but he is bound under the Constitution to uphold the rule of law. If no such inquiry is ordered then Premanand would be forced to take necessary legal action at the cost of Chavan.
The notice points out that Chavan had shown an alacrity in rushing to Puttaparthi by a special plane after the alleged attack when he had not done this when Bombay was burning The five page legal notice shows how Premanand has sought to Prosecute the Sai Baba under the Gold Control Act by producing even a cassette of his so-called magic powers of producing necklaces at the marriage of the daughter of a Supreme Court judge who herself exposed the heppening. It also points out the large and powerful political following of the Sai Baba who has been challenge on his various claims by Mr. Premanand.
