The Facts the Photographs reveal
about the Murders
Date: 02-01-02
Event date, June 6, 1993, 22:30 p.m. concerning:
High intrigue. Deadly power struggle in Puttaparthi
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Suresli Shantharam Prabhu, killed June 6, 1993:
Post-Mortem Certificate from Suresh Santharam Prabhu
Sai Ram, killed June 6, 1993:
Post-Mortem Certificate from K. Sai Ram
Jagannatham, killed June 6, 1993:
Post-Mortem Certificate from Jagannatham
Suresh Kumar, killed June 6, 1993:
Post-Mortem Certificate from E. K. Suresh Kumar
Pic. 1 is the massive
building where the 3 domes are covered with gold - the residence of Satya Sai Baba with a
plinth area of 35' x 90' with a first floor of the same dimension:
The
ground floor from left up to 75' length is used as a prayer hall and the end rooms on the
right is used by Sai Baba for personal interviews with a stair case leading to the first
floor which is occupied by the godman, his personal aide Radha Krishna and other body
guards including the trust member Col. Joga Rao. Tehelka Corn November 29, 2000 article
states that the Sathya Sai Baba is ringed with two concentric circles of Israel trained
and armed security personnel, close-circuit television, wireless communications with Uzis
slung on their shoulders.
Pic. 2 is the photograph
of the Baba distributing letters to his devotees, after a sumptuous lunch to the devotees
and the residents of Puttaparthi. It was after the 6 murders in the bedroom. It looks
strange of a person who talks about practicing universal love and his face expressing
anger and cruelty. We remember Nero. When actual murders were carried out and Sai Baba got
the case closed, this alone proves he is not one practicing Sathya Dharma, Shanthi and
Prema.
Pic. 3 is the entrance to
the interview room on the ground floor where selected devotees wait.
According
to the FIR it is alleged that the four assailants entered into Baba's ground floor room on
pretext of handing over a telegram to Baba and the four aides objected them and that said
assailants attacked and stabbed them with daggers indiscriminately. It doesn't look like 8
persons (four aides and four assailants) were fighting and being stabbed. When someone
attacks, one does not stand still but try to avoid the
If
someone had tied the alleged aides with ropes, the question of the assail
More
over the feet of the 4 assailants would have been drenched with blood if they had stabbed
the aides went to upstairs to do away Swami as stated in the FIR there would have been
foot prints of blood leading to the stairs but the floor after the blood pool leading to
the door is clean without a speck of blood.
Pic. 5 the staircase with
doors open. While there are no foot prints in blood on the floor after the door;
surprisingly blood is seen sprinkled on the steps and 3 streamlets of blood flowing up to
the floor on the door steps. This is unnatural and the police have not explained how the
blood suddenly appeared on the door steps and the stairs. They also do not look like the
foot prints of blood of the four assailants. So if it was true that the four assailants
had indiscriminately stabbed the four aides, their foot prints in blood would have been
seen surely on the floor and the stairs or where ever they walked. Also when the door to
the stairs is seen closed in Pic. 6 it is strange that the blood has
splashed on the stairs.
Pic. 6 shows seven knives
one as long as 4' long. It is not known how these could be hidden in their body by the
four alleged assailants when blood stains are seen especially on the 4' sword and the
metal instrument. They were not found near the bodies of the four assailants.
As per
the interview given by Retired Jus. Balakrishna Erady, Supreme Court, the 4 alleged
assailants being the watchmen of the residence for the night had carried their bedding and
the knives etc. might have been hidden in the bedding. But their bedding is not found
inside the residence as per the observations of the mandal executive magistrate.
On the right side in front of the sofa, part of a red and
blue box or book is seen. The teapot on the left side of the sofa is full with materials -
flask, idol of Ramakrishna,
Pic. 8 is of the 2 bottles containing
potassium cyanide and ether and the rest are the defused bomb parts with wire etc. The
police have not explained how after a thorough search of the premises on 7th, they
discovered the bombs on 8.6.1993. Also
Pic. 9
is the door to Sai Baba's bedroom. It is alleged in the F.I.R. that the police broke open
the top left side blank to open the door. Photographs 17, 18, 19, 26, 27
and 28 taken from inside and outside Baba's bedroom do not show the broken
pieces of the plank except a small blue colored piece near the back of Sai Ram in Pic.16.
1f the door plank was broken before the shooting, the pieces ought to have been found
inside and outside of the bedroom. The photograph 9 shows the plank was neatly
removed. There is no proof that the police broke open the plank in which case the
plank pieces ought to have been seen in the above photographs.
Pic. 10 is of Radhakrishnan, the personal aid of Sai Baba who takes care of his
physical needs and Pic.
11 is that of Sai Kumar Mahajan, both of whom are alleged
to have been stabbed to death by the alleged assailants. It is not known whether the other
two alleged aides have been questioned as to how the rope pieces are found in the
interview room in blood. It is also not known how Sai Kumar Mahajan could gain entry into
Sai Baba's bedroom and how he was allowed to go at night from the hostel by the warden.
Pic. 12, 13, 14 to 15 are the photographs of
Suresli Shatharam Prabhu, one of the four alleged assailants.
What
the FIR states about the shooting dead the four assailants is that at about 11:30 p.m.
four assailants armed with daggers suddenly opened doors (of Baba's bedroom) pounced on
police, attacked and caused injuries to three with a view to kill. As police could not
over power them, in self defense, 5 police opened fire killing all the four assailants in
the mandir. According to postmortem report all the four assailants were shot dead point
blank at less than 6"distance. If the assailants had rushed out of the room, they
ought to have been shot outside and not inside. The position of their bodies prove that
all were shot inside the rooms and not from outside.
Pic. 12 shows Suresh Shantharam Prabhu with his head on the door step. In the
l3th photograph taken from his back, his legs are in the middle of the room and there is a
pink colored bath towel on his right side. At his back on the left is a fallen teapot. In
the l2th and l3th photographs the position of the legs of the teapot is different.
Moreover if the teapot was really there it would not have been possible to open the door.
If the assailant had come out of the door to stab the police, he would not have been shot
inside the center of the room, from the back. There is not a drop of blood on the floor
when he had been shot at less than 6"distance at the back of the right chest. The
position of the body in Pic.
12 and 13 shows that he was shot from behind
from the room. When the four alleged assailants were shot dead at less than
6"distance, what was the necessity of 5 police shooting them is not known. Moreover
the bullets which have pierced them have not been checked as to from which rifles
In the photographs
12, 13 and 14, the body is lying in
face down position, while in photograph 15 the body is on the back
with face up. It is also not possible to identify the room and as per the CB-CID remand
report it is the bedroom of Radhakrishna. On the far end of the room a bed sheet has
fallen down half on the ground. The wound on the back of right chest is visible but it is
dry. As the bullet did not come out of the body, there cannot be blood in the front side
of the chest. But photograph
15 shows blood on the right and left of the shirt in the front and also on the sleeves. In photograph 12, 13
and 14 the eyes are shut while in photograph 15 eyes are open.
Someone has raised the shirt and so his chest and part of the stomach is seen. His right
hand is in a different position in photograph 15 from that in
photographs
There
is a drop of blood on the floor near the door steps and two knives. If Suresh Shantharam
Prabhu after being shot in the middle of the room fell down dead the knives cannot fall
outside. The position of the two knives looks as if some one had placed them there. The
two hands under his body proves that he had not thrown the knives away. More over, no
gloves is seen in the room or outside. So the finger prints on the knives ought to have
been checked by the police. There is some blood of his pants near the right leg.
Pic. 16, 17, 18, 19 are of Sai Ram a student of Baba's University. The warden has not explained how he came out of the hostel at night when it is claimed that the hostel rules are very strict. The snakebed pointed out that he is in Sai Baba's bedroom. His legs are inside the door and so he was shot inside the bedroom. He has been shot at the left side of the neck from a distance less than 6". If he was running out of the room and stab the police, it would not have been possible to shoot him at the left side of the neck. His leg and body position proves that he was inside the room facing the bed. When his palms are under his body it would not have been possible for him to remove the gloves from his hand and throw it behind his head. There is no blood on the gloves also. The blood on the planks of the door proves that he was shot from inside with the door closed. Splashes of blood are there around him up to the hips and a pool of blood in front of his face. A neat white folded cloth is also splashed with blood which would not have come from the neck injury. There is a box and a small knife near his knee joint, also a blue bag, under his left foot there is a white cloth.
In Photograph
17 there is a rope above his head in the corner of the
room. The eyes are closed in photograph 16, 17, 18,
while in photograph 19 it is wide open. Someone has raised his shirt and his stomach part is
seen with his left hand on it. His mouth is open and everything looks unnatural.
In all the photographs the jeans and shirt are clean without
blood stains. In usual course the blood would have sprouted out immediately he was shot on the neck and drenched his dress.
It is also not possible to identify the room in photograph 19.
Pic. 20, 21, 22 and 23 are of Jagannatham. His body is lying on his right side with legs towards
the door and head towards the cot and the face towards the wall. There is a watch on his
left hand and his left palm is near his face. He has been shot on his right palm, on the left side of the axial piercing the left
side of the chest and another shot on the right side of the 2nd sutor costal area
lacerated up to the right mammary area. Here also he has been shot from inside the room
and not from outside the door. There is an object near his right palm. The floor is clean
and though blood is seen on the sleeves of the right hand in Pic. 20, the blood is
not visible in Pic. 21 and 22. Pic. 23 is with face up. There are blotches of blood on the right side of the
chest but his hand position differs from the other photographs. While in photographs 20 and 21 his left hand touches his nose, photograph 22 shows his
left hand away from the nose.
Pic. 24 is of Suresh Kumar with Baba. He was very near to Baba and had collected
lots of mementos from him. So also other assailants.
Pic. 25, 26, 27, 28 are the murder scene of Suresh Kumar in Sai Baba's bedroom.
In Pic. 25 and 27 you can see his feet in the space of a wooden almirah. This very clearly proves that he had not dashed out of Baba's bedroom to stab the police and really he was shot while hiding behind the alnurah. He was shot in the left eye and the brain was lacerated, the 2nd shot was on the right thigh and the 3rd shot in the lateral side of the left wrist. All shots were from less than 6"distance. There is a blood pool around him down the waist and not beyond the thigh. Though the 2nd shot was on the right thigh, there is no blood on the right side of the pants. Both the hands are with blood but the blood had not splashed around after the fall. The two knifes are clean at the handle and the one near to him, the blade has blood stains. There are two gloves near him one as if dipped in blood and the other spotless. When he would have died immediately he was shot in the eye there would not have been any time to remove the gloves after having been shot on the left wrist. There is also a part of white cloth touching the red gloves without any blood on it. His shirt and pants are almost spotless. In photographs 25, 26, 27 he has fallen on his left side. The photograph 28 shows him fallen on his back and the hands are not in the same position as in other 3 photographs 25, 26, 27.
These
murder photographs seem to have been taken after the bodies are moved from the place of
murder and suit the built up story in the FIR by the Circle Inspector (police Gangadhar
Reddy, at the direction of H.J. Dora who had rushed to Puttaparthi on the 6th night itself
from Hyderabad.
Pic. 29 is of Vijay Shantaram Prabhu who escaped murder and Pic. 30 is of Boyapati Ravindra Babu who also escaped from the murder.
Pic. 31 is of the Circle Inspector Gangadhar Reddy who filed the false FIR and
the other 2 pictures 32 and 33 are of the police constables who are alleged to have be stabbed by the
four assailants. They had only scratches by blunt instruments and were not by sharp
knives.
With
all the fanfare that once these two fugitives who escaped on 6.6.1998 are arrested the police would be able to get
evidence on the conspiracy, nothing happened. The case was closed on a confidential G.O.
by the AP State Home department against law and to save the Baba.
According
to BBC visiting correspondent, Jaswinder Singh's on the spot reporting from Puttaparthi
the four alleged assailants were not killed by the police, but by the Baba's own people.
The BBC had quoted the mother of E.K. Sureshkumar one of the Dead "Assassins"
that her son was for long fearing murder and he was finally killed. (Vol.2, Page 294).
The
logical conclusion from these photographs beyond doubt is that the state police, the high
court, the supreme court and the state government have collided together in hushing up the
murder case with all these proofs, the news paper reports and the records of the case.
The
police failed in their duty to verify the finger prints on the alarm switch, the knives,
the bottle containing potassium cyanide, ether, the bombs, the poles etc., which if they
had verified would have been enough proof to arrest the real murderers.
The murderers are neither the aides nor the alleged 6 assailants but the Sai Baba coterie who on the order of the Sai Baba murdered them.
More articles about the Murders on this site are:
Juny 1993
06: Excerpts from newspaper reports about the murders in Sai Baba's vicinity
October 2001
21: The murders in Sai Baba's private quarters (Robert Priddy)