
Patna: The Patna High Court on Wednesday stayed the operation of the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by a Araria court against self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba. Justice SP Singh passed the order and fixed June 16 as the next date for hearing. The High Court had on Tuesday reserved its order on Nirmal Baba's plea challenging the legality of the non-bailable warrant of arrest issued by the Araria court. The Araria...

01:03 PM, May 23, 2012

Patna: Self-proclaimed godman Nirmal Baba on Monday moved the Patna High Court challenging the legality of the non-bailable arrest warrant issued by a court in Araria in Bihar against him. Vindhyachal Prasad Singh, an advocate, filed the application on behalf of the Baba. The court of Araria Chief Judicial Magistrate Satyendra Razak had issued a warrant of arrest on Saturday on the basis of an FIR filed on April 21...

04:17 PM, May 21, 2012

New Delhi: A local court in Bihar on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant against spiritual leader Nirmal Baba in connection with a cheating and forgery case. Chief Judicial Magistrate's court in Araria district of Bihar issued the arrest warrant against the Delhi-based spiritual leader. The court's order comes in connection with a forgery case filed in Forbesganj court last month. Nirmal Baba has been in the line of fire after...

04:17 PM, May 19, 2012

Lucknow: The Lucknow Police have registered an FIR against him self-styled godman Nirmal Baba. Nirmal Baba has been charged with cheating, fraud and impersonation under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. The Police acted following a local court order based on a complaint filed by an 17-year-old. Tanya Thakur complained after watching the baba's TV show Nirmal Darbar in which he offers solutions to people's problems. Sections under which...

01:06 PM, May 12, 2012

The author of 'Curse of the Godman,' Biddu was born in India and started his career playing in a pop band influenced by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Following early success, he headed West and moved into the international music arena where he quickly struck gold, signing the unknown Carl Douglas and producing the hit Kung Fu Fighting. He tasted success on his return to India in the early...

07:12 PM, Feb 14, 2012

Kochi: The Kerala High Court was on Tuesday informed that there was evidence to link V A Arun Kumar, son of former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, with jailed "godman" Swami Amritananthachaithanya alias Santosh Madhavan. The state vigilance department said it has traced phone calls between Kumar, Madhavan and a woman advocate. The department said that as the incident that led to the case happened in 2006, it would require...

05:01 PM, Nov 29, 2011

Bangalore: Self-styled godman Nithyananda, who is facing charges of rape and unnatural sex, on Thursday, appeared before the court at Ramanagara, with two of his disciples. Nithyananda, Bhaktananada and Sachidananda had been asked by the court to appear before it after CID filed chargesheet against them on November 27. The matter was adjourned to January six. The self-styled godman was arrested from Himachal Pradesh in April after TV channels telecast...

08:11 PM, Dec 16, 2010

Ramanagara: Self-styled godman Swami Nityananda, released on bail after remaining in jail for 53 days on rape and other criminal charges, will now resort to a 'penance' by meditating in his Bidadi ashram from Sunday. "Nityananda will undertake 'pancha tapasya' in which he will sit and pray with the fire set around him for about three feet height," a spokesman of the ashram, who declined to be named, told PTI...

01:37 PM, Jun 13, 2010

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07:31 AM, Mar 07, 2010
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12:37 PM, Mar 06, 2010

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10:46 AM, Mar 06, 2010

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12:20 PM, Mar 05, 2010

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01:35 PM, Mar 04, 2010

Asaram Bapu is being questioned by the police for the murders. ...

03:50 PM, Dec 22, 2009

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