Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter NITHYANANDA AND HALAPPA- DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT PLAYERS..

FIROZ.T.TOTANAWALA

THE BANGALORE METRO REPORTER 

NITHYANANDA AND HALAPPA 

DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT PLAYERS… 

 All are equal before Law - they say. But in reality, some are more equal. The case in the point is the kid glove treatment being meted out to former minister Halappa and the ‘rude’ treatment to Nithyananda. While Nithyananda is doing penance in the Jail, Halappa is getting VIP treatment in Victoria Hospital and interestingly both are in Judicial custody for their amorous adventures. While Halappa is accused of raping his friend’s wife, who had given a complaint in this regard, the police are making all out efforts to make the devotees of Nithyananda to file a complaint against him. In one case the entire state machinery including the CM are behind the culprit, and the same is pitted against another . .

Political power is such a wonderful tool to do any damn thing and digest the same. Political power bends the rules of the game and even the law of the land. People with no power, let alone political, will always be at the mercy of the authority. The best example for this is Haratal Halappa, Minister who resigned in the face of allegations of rape on his friends wife. Technically Halappa is in judicial custody. But he had not seen the inside of the jail where he was supposed to be lodged. 

The moment he was remanded to JC, Halappa suddenly developed assortment of ailments and got admitted in the Meggon Hospital in Shimoga. Halappa had moved the bail application and it was rejected. He had applied for bail in the High Court. The doctors in Shimoga Hospital have decided to shift him to Bangalore’s Victoria Hospital as they said that Shimoga Hospital does not have facilities to treat Halappa’s ailments. Shimoga’s Meggon Hospital is one of the best. As Halappa suffered from ‘political’ ailments, there was not much the doctors could do. So, they shifted him to Bangalore and Halappa is ‘housed’, not lodged, in a VIP ward. He will continue to be in the VIP ward till he gets bail from the High Court. Halappa’s VIP ward is being visited by the politicians in power. The Victoria Hospital authorities are reeling out details of so called serious ailments suffered by Halappa. And the same Halappa before the episode, was a symbol of youthfulness, energy, dynamism etc. Nobody would have even dreamt that Halappa was a serious patient suffering from alteast a dozen ailments! 

 Just compare this with the case of Nithyananda alias Swamy Nithyananda. Nithyananda who ran a billion dollar spiritual institution both in India and abroad was exposed of his amorous adventures with women, by his driver who released the CD of his amorous adventures with a Tamil cine actress Ranjita. The police went in for a massive hunt for Nithyananda even though he had made it clear that he will come to Bangalore to meet the police. But the police went to Himachal Pradesh and arrested him. He was taken to Jayadeva Hospital when he complained of chest pain immediately after he was remanded to Judicial custody. Within a hour, he was sent to the Ramanagaram jail and is lodged since then. Nithyananda moved for bail but was rejected. His bail application is in the High Court. 

Despite the tell tale evidences in the CD, none has come forward to lodge a complaint against him. Even Ranjitha who was seen with Nithyananda in compromising position in force people to lodge complaint the Swamy. The police are opposing the bail plea on one or the other pretexts. Recently the bail plea was adjourned as the police have submitted that they are expecting complaints against the Swamy in few days. 

Even to this day, not a single victim (?) has come forward to lodge a complaint or despose against Nithyananda. The CID the CD, had not given any complaint, let alone evidence. The police are moving hell and earth to force people to lodge complaint the Swamy. The police are opposing the bail plea on one or the other pretexts. Recently the bail plea was adjourned as the police have submitted that they are expecting complaints against the Swamy in few days. Even to this day, not a single victim (?) has come forward to lodge a complaint or despose against Nithyananda. The CID police even have snatched the Rudrakshi Mala wore by on the pretext that he may commit suicide with the mala! 

 Nithyananda is spending his time in the cell of Ramanagaram jail and the only VIP treatment he is getting is the food from his ashram. The police have also freezed the accounts of the ashram making it difficult to his disciples to run the ashram. He is being treated as an ordinary criminal. 

 In case of Halappa, there is a specific complaint of rape and threat by the victim. In the case of Nithyananda, there is no complaint by any one including the victims (?) And while Halappa accused of rape and threat is enjoying VIP treatment and had not stepped into the jail, Nithyananda against whom not a single complaint has been filed, is cooling his heels in a solitary and that too, women’s cell in a Jail. 

Can there be a better double standard than this? It is time, the law should be applied equally to one and all to uphold the importance of law being supreme!