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Hindu Priest "Swami Jnana Chaithanya" remanded
to judicial custody
MALAPPURAM, April 19, 2005 According to her complaint,Amanada,24,who
came into contact with the Chaithnya (P M Sudhakaran), 50, through a UK-based
NRI Prasad, was forced into the marriage last year after being threatened that
he would make her mad using his tantrik powers.Since then Amanda was staying
alongwith his first wife and six children at his ashram at Kottakkal near here.
She was not even allowed to contact with her relatives, including father P R
Williams. It was only when the accused left for
Mumbai last week she was able to sent a message to her father, who rushed here
immediately, rescued her from the Ashram with the help of Arya Samaj workers
produced her before the Nilbur court, according to the complaint. Later on Sunday, Amanda left for London
alongwith her father on a directive from the court.
As per his statement recorded by the Kottakkal police, Sudhakaran was with the
Madras Engineers Group as surveyor and deserted from the force with arms and
ammunition in early 80s. After his desertion, Sudhakaran was
sentenced for life term in connenction with a triple murder case at Ranni in
Pathanamthitta district and was released from the jail in 1995. Since then he
was acting as a tantrik, police added quoting his statement.
Thiruvananthapuram,
April 18: From convict to “ascetic” to convict again. Self-styled sanyasi Jnana Chitanya,
alias P.M. Sudhakaran, has landed in police custody again after his second
wife, a Britisher, accused him of keeping her in captivity and torturing
her for the past year. Police in Kottakal in Kerala’s
northern Malappuram district are interrogating the 45-year-old Sudhakaran,
who has six children by his first marriage and has served a life sentence
for murder. Sudhakaran had married Amanda
William, 24, a law undergraduate from the UK, at the Mookambika shrine in
southern Karnataka on April 14, last year. Amanda’s father traces his roots to
Calcutta four generations ago, according to lawyer Rajeev Lakshman. The
father believed Sudhakaran was an avatar of Shiva — though born a
Christian, he was a devotee of Shiva. According to the complaint,
Sudhakaran had kept Amanda confined in his ashram, forcing her to have sex
with him and depriving her of proper food. He also tried to stop Amanda
from keeping in touch with her parents. When Amanda decided to leave the
ashram, Sudhakaran threatened to finish off her family using his tantrik
powers. The self-styled sanyasi had
allegedly used a similar tactic to persuade Amanda’s father to give him
her hand in marriage. Sudhakaran had apparently told him that Amanda and
he were wedded to each other in their previous lives and she would turn
insane if her father stood in the way of the marriage. Amanda first met Sudhakaran in 2002
when she visited his ashram with her parents. A friend from Mumbai had
told them that the “ascetic” could help them overcome the financial
problems they were facing in the UK. After the Williams went back
suitably impressed, Sudhakaran began sending emails to Amanda. The Internet that had brought
Amanda close to Sudhakaran helped her break away. Amanda sent an email to
her father while Sudhakaran was away in Mumbai. He got in touch with Lakshman and
the local Arya Samaj, which bailed Amanda out. Sudhakaran came back and filed a
missing complaint with the police on the basis of which Amanda was picked
up. She, however, told the magistrate that she wanted to return to her
family and left for the UK with her father yesterday. Lakshman said Sudhakaran, who was
in the army, had shot wounded an officer in Bangalore before running away
with his Sten gun in the early 1980s. On way to the Sabarimala shrine, he
had hijacked a car and shot dead its owner and two others who intercepted
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Perinthalmanna First
Class Judicial Magistrate remanded "Swami Jnana Chaithanya", a local tantrik ,
to judicial custody for harasssing his second wife Amanda Williams, a British
national.The self styled Swami was sent to judicial custody till May 2 on a
complaint made by Amanda before the Nilambur Magistrate court that she was
subjected to harassment and torture by the accused.
