Nithyananda’s Sex CD Genuine, says CFSL

Bangalore, Jun 10 (DHNS): Setting to rest all speculations, the Hyderabad-based Central Forensics Science Laboratory (CFSL) has authenticated that the Nithyananda sex video involving Tamil actress Ranjitha is authentic.

According to details of the analysis that were sent four days ago to the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the case, the video, which was clandestinely recorded by a former Nithyananda devotee inside the godman’s bedroom in his Bidadi ashram near here, is genuine.

The CID will present this fact before the Karnataka High Court on Thursday when Nithyananda’s bail application comes up for hearing. The CFSL analysis nails the godman and his devotees’ claims that the video was fake and that it had been doctored and morphed. Immediately after the scandal broke out on March 2, Nithyananda had claimed that some of his senior devotees had sent a copy of the video for analysis to London - a step which was never taken.

On Wednesday, the Ramanagara sessions court extended the judicial custody of Nithyananda and a senior devotee Gopal Sheelum Reddy, alias Bhaktananda, till June 23. Chief Judicial Magistrate Pushpavathi agreed with the Public Prosecutor Lokesh who sought an extension in the self-styled godman’s custody on the ground that the police needed time to interrogate him further.

Theory refused

The judge refused to buy the theory of defence counsel Vaidvyas who opposed an extension. The two were arrested while in hiding in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, on April 21.

CID sources said on conditions of anonymity that now that the CFSL analysis was available, it would go in for matching of individual picture profiles of Nithyananda and Ranjitha to conclusively establish that the persons seen featured in the video are indeed the godman and the actress who continues to elude the CID.

Police sources believe that an “elaborate charade” was being enacted by the actress, who is believed to be in hiding abroad, to avoid being examined by the CID sleuths. “But we will ensure that Ranjitha is examined. If need be investigators will visit her in Chennai if that is the location she wishes to be examined,” an official said.


Nithyananda-Rajitha Sex Tape Not Tampered
Deccan Chronicle, Chennai, June 10, 2010

The videotape that exposed controversial spiritual guru Nithyananda Swami’s alleged sexcapades leading to a criminal case against him by the Chennai police and subsequently the Bidadi police and Karnataka’s Criminal Investigation Department is “genuine” and “untampered”, said highly placed official sources.

The videotape was sent for forensic verification by the CID, which is investigating the case.

The forensic experts have certified that the tape is “original, unedited and untampered. It has not been morphed,” said the source. Now the agency has asked the forensic experts for the video-authentification of the tape to rule out any possible doubt, of a Nithyananda look-alike in the tape.

The video allegedly shot by Nithyananda’s former devotee Lenin Karuppan in his ashram in Bidadi had the tainted guru with the Tamil actress Ranjitha in a compromising position.

The originality of the tape was questioned by his ashram – the Dhyanapeetham – and Nithyananda all through remained evasive when questioned if the man in the video footage was him. He however, on occasions reportedly identified the lady in the tape as Ranjitha but she had denied it.

This is the first evidence the CID has gathered against the jailed swami but even this does not strengthen the case against Nithyananda because till now not even one victim has deposed before the CID against him. -