Sathya Sai Trust In Vast Treasure Scandals: Secret Temple,
Van, and Bus Stashes
At 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya
Sai Baba', see the article:
Sathya Sai Trust In Vast Treasure Scandals: Secret Temple,
Van, and Bus Stashes
Posted by
Barry Pittard on June 20, 2011
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If due diligence occurs,
Andhra Pradesh police investigations will need to pursue, at
a simple count, at least four lots of alleged Sai Trust
illicit treasury violations. Up to the time of Sathya Sai
Baba’s death, there were previous reports of
at least one truckload of treasure making its way out
of Puttaparthi.
But, then, the Sai
Central Trust denied this allegation. I referred to this
earlier, all too easily-forgotten report in my post of
yesterday:
Reports of Sathya Sai Central Trust Van Laden With Treasure
Seized By Andhra State Police.
... But why not look
further down the years, too? Does a fascination for hoarding
millions in various currencies and mounting up vast stashes
of gold, precious stones and other valuables just – what
shall I say? – materialise out of nowhere, and all of a
sudden. Surely, there are some long antecedents.
One issue comes to my
mind quickly. It stems back to 2001. Hari Sampath, formerly
a member of Sathya Sai Baba’s Security and Intelligence Wing
at Puttaparthi, citing reasons of personal conscience at
what he saw to be corruption at the heart of Sathya Sai
Baba’s religious empire, took out a
Public Interest Litigation (PIL) suit against Sathya Sai
Baba. The high-profile advocate Kamini Jaiswal took his case
pro bono.
I have shown documents
in this case to outstanding legal counsel in various
democratic jurisdictions, and the repeated reaction was one
of abhorrence for the summary manner in which the judges
dealt with the case. An expression used was ‘Kangaroo
Court’. Let anyone read, in part, an Indian lawyer’s
notes for the case. See the article:
Sai Baba protected by the Supreme Court of India.
They will get their own
sense of the corruption of some judges at the epicenter of
(so-called) Indian Justice...