Clarification and Demolishing Confusion about
fraud and forgery of Swami Shankaranand Giri, President of Kriya Yoga
Foundation Trust and News telecast by Z Kalinga
It got too late to respond to the queries,
allegations and counter opinions given by readers following my
appeal for participation in the
Emergency Meeting of Civil Society
Groups on Attack on Media organized at
Red Cross Bhawan on 5.9.15 at 10 am.
The meeting was held with participation of
around 35 members of Civil Society Groups, advocates and Social Activists at
Red Cross Bhawan on 5.9.15. The members interacted about the details of the issues,
fraud and forgery of Swami Shankaranand and attempt of vested Groups to
demoralize Satya Prakash Nayak. It was
decided to file a petition to Deputy Commissioner of Police, Bhubaneswar to
enquire into detailed of allegation made against Swami Shankaranand and
organize demonstration expressing solidarity with Satya Prakash Nayak, Z Kalinga
and upholding Freedom of Press. Accordingly, FIR was lodged against Swami Shankaranand in Saheed Nagar on 5.9.15 at 2 PM and a
15-member delegation met Deputy Commissioner
of Police and submitted petition protesting immediate lodging of an
FIR against Satya Prakash Nayak without preliminary enquiry and requested him to conduct enquiry into allegations against
Shankaranand.
Mass
Demonstration expressing solidarity with Satya Prakash Nayak and protesting against Govt. for curtailing
freedom of press was held at lower PMG
with participation of hundreds of
journalists, Activists, academicians, teachers etc.
Expressing their reaction on my appeal
for solidarity with Satya Prakash Nayak, the Readers have given their opinion that
the news broadcast on allegations made against Swami Shakaranand Giri is false. As I along with my Activists
friends are quite active in exposing
illegal land grabbing by Ministers,
MLAs, IAS and IPS officers and fraud Babas
since last few years, we took it
as challenge and constituted a fact-finding team to enquire into details of forgery of land
documents and land illegally grabbed by
Shankarananda. while going
through the documents obtained through
RTI, it was found that there was a Land
Lease-Deed agreement signed between Sri K.C. Das, Secretary, Kriya Yoga
Foundation Trust, Kriya Yoga Ashram, Bhubaneswar , District-Khurda and Swami Shankaranada Giri, President,
Prabhujee English Medium School, V.S.S. Nagar, Bhubaneswar, Dist-Khurda in 2001 in the office of District Sub-Registrar,
Bhubaneswar. As per Lease
Agreement, Sri K.C. Das, Secretary,
Kriya Yoga Foundation Trust has handed over a portion of its land measuring 3
Ac on lease basis to Swami Shankaranand Giri to run Prabhujee English Medium
School. The Schedule of the property of
the land is Hal Plot No- 5168/5169
under Mouza- Gadakana of Bhubaneswar Tehsil. The location of
the land is East- Hospital and Ashram Main Gate,
West- Ashram Land, North- Ashram road
and Building , South- Institute of Hotel
Management.
On 8th and 9th Sept. 15,
the Team visited Gadakana and Ragamatia village and met the owner of the land (
Hal Plot No- 5168/5169) and enquired to
know the details of the land and its
location. It was found that the owner of
Hal Plot No 5168 ( Khata No-875) is Sri Giridhari Bhoi, Gokul Bhoi
of Surath Bhoi, Father of Gadakana
Mouza. The owner of Hal Plot. 5169( Khata No.-707) is Sri Keshab Das of Rangamatia village. Both
these lands are located far away from Prabhujee English Medium School. So,
Swami Shankaranand has produced forged
document to CBSE ( Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi) to get
affiliation of the school. While looking
at land records of Department of General Administration, It was
also found that the said
school is situated on the land of
General Administration of Govt. of Odisha which has been encroached
and illegally occupied by Swami Shankaranand since long. Interestingly,
due to nexus of Swami Shankaranand with corrupt bureaucracy, the State
Govt. has not taken any step to recover
the encroached land. On 9.9.15, we filed
a complaint petition to CBSE, New Delhi through Regional office, at Alok
Bharati Building, Bhubaneswar and FIR was also lodged in Saheed Nagar Police
station against Shankaranad to initiate criminal proceeding against him.
While going through another document obtained from office of Inspector General of Registration, Cuttack, it was
found that Swami Shakaranand Giri is no more president of Kriya Yoga Foundation
Trust as per order of IGR dated 27.4.2002. In 1998, the Founder-president of
Kriya Yoga Foundation Trust Swami Hariharananda Giri had written a letter to
IGR, Cuttack appraising anti-social, criminal and illegal activities of Swami Shankaranand
and intimated his order of removal of Shakaranand and other members from
Trust.
Other
allegation about his forgery and illegal activities will be exposed very soon.
So, the news telecast in Z Kalinga is based on FACT. If anybody has guts to
challenge the abovementioned fact, please come out with fact and figures.
Let us come to
other issues raised by the readers of the group and my response to it. In
democracy, everybody has right to speak, write and give their opinion in public
domain on any issue and we must respect it.
Similarly, a news channel or news paper has also right which is termed
as Freedom of Press to disseminate or telecast any news on their wish.
Similarly, they have also right to choose or judge whom they will invite to
their press and take opinion or reject anybody.
Public opinion hardly matters. If
someone’s opinion, views or comments hamper anybody’s dignity or privacy, he or
she is legally empowered to file
defamation suit or take any legal action against the person concerned. For example,
Odisha Information
Commission has filed defamation case against me
in Civil Court , Bhubaneswar for my criticism to their anti-RTI functioning.
The case is yet to be disposed of. Similarly, if anybody feels anything wrong in
media, they can file a complaint to Press Council of India, New Delhi or follow
legal procedure against it. Many times, the affected parties i.e, State Govt.
with acrimonious attitude tried to control media or individual activists
working to expose misdeeds of the administration by putting baseless and false
charges . Many journalists and Human Rights Activists have been victim of the
State sponsored Attack in Odisha since last few years.
We have to accept the greater role played by
media in terms of sensitizing the people about various issues in our state more
particularly exposing fraud Babas since last one month. Though the Rationalists
Groups have been working hard to sensitize the people against fraud Babas and
their so-called Prabachana, art of mesmerizing the illiterate poor
people since many years, they were found hardly successful in their effort to refrain the people from visiting
Ashrams. But the media succeeded
alerting the people about fraud Babas within very short span of time.
It is also fact that the media is also
controlled by corporate sectors. A corporate house or any individual
establishing Printing Press or Electronics media has their own business agenda.
Within their own framework, we have to find out the space where we can raise
our issues of the public importance. Each media has their own issues of priority
and public imprtance. Flat allegation against any press without understanding
about politics of media house is meaningless and just throwing stone at
mountain. As media houses get controlled by corporate dalas day by day, the news
about public issue gets less importance and space for highlighting public cause
gets squeezed. That’s why the activists and concerned citizens have started
using social media to fight for cause of the people. Blaming this media or that media with personal vendetta will no way solve any problem of the state.
Pradip Pradhan, M-9937843482
Date- 13.9.15
Shankarananda Baba (SB) was a disciple of Swami Hariharananda (SH) from Karar Ashram, Puri. I knew them both in the 80's. SH used to come in the west to give yoga programs ; when becoming old, SH used to come with SB to help him. But soon some trouble start between them. That was around 1985. What happens exactly is difficult to say. Probably BS wanted to start his own carreer , and not be only N°2 man. They stop to travel and teach together, SH travelling abroad mainly in USA, and SB coming regularly, alone , in Europe. SB was a good and powerful yogi, and people who came to take diksha was mainly satisfied, as he was very able to manipulate prana in the body of disciples and magnetize them, inducing altered states of mind. I can testify also he discretly tried to cheat people, by selling astrological rings, for which gold was asked in quite good amount, and not fully put in the ring. Also he tried to sall false 1 mukhi rudraksha for big amount. This was done secretly, in private meetings only. At that time, I think it was in 1987, I went in Puri Karar Ashram , where Swami Hariharananda held annual meeting with all his disciples ans swamis. Of course BS didn't attend. SH clearly and directly told me that SB is a very bad person, who is no more allowed to teach kriya yoga in his name, that he his smuggling with gold, money, and involved in unclear business. Also he was to reveal SB was no longer a pure sanyasi as he was sleeping with a lady, srimati Sudhama. At that time SB was head of the then Hariharananda English Medium School, but after he changes the name as Prabhujee English Medium School. In his yoga teaching SB remove all reference to Swami Hariharananda and in place promote Prabhujee as his guru. That is what I saw myself, back in the 1985-1990. I read that Sudhama was expelled from the Ashram bt BS, charged of misuse of funds, I suggest journalists turn toward her to learn more about SB. She was , as well as all her family , the first and foremost disciples and donators of SB, and as said she was his "muse" and Vice -president of the trust. She knows all and everything.
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