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An ethnic Indian professor at Emerson College in the USA has published a book which tends to promote Sathya Sai Baba and his movement/organization as an example of “winged faith”. In an interview after his death, she virtually promoted him and his works in the following words. Sai Baba “was a figure in India life for more than 70 years whose message of universal love won him followers in India and throughout the world. Sai Baba also helped to mobilize his followers to charitable acts and help the less fortunate”.

While he was almost unknown in India until the 1960s (i.e. thus not for 70 years at all), it was not his message of ‘universal love’ that made him well-known but his supposed miracles. The Beatles were far more famous and known for their message of universal love through their music. He did not incorporate any elements of Islam into his teachings, since he hardly ever referred to Islamic teachings except in the very most elementary form, and he never quoted the Quran (Koran) or any Islamic scriptures. He also promoted a claim totally foreign to Islam, that he was God in human form… in fact this is blasphemy in Islam. Please see the following articles which explain other failings in Tulasi Srinivas’ poor attempt to achieve academic notability.

Tulasi Srinivas and her research into Sathya Sai Baba issues
Kevin R.D. Shepherd on biased research by academic Tulasi Srinivas

Sathya Sai Baba – death, funeral, treasure discoveries & the Sai Trust

basengelbarts — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:33:36 +0000

Sai Trust: irregularities & secrecy on Sai Baba’s death

The unrest in Puttaparthi – and no doubt throughout the International Sathya Sai Organization – is surely not caused only by the financial irregularities that are under investigation but by the long history of secrecy, unaccountability an…

by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on Jun 27, 2011

Andhra Pradesh Intelligence Watch On Sathya Sai Central Trust. AP Gvt Closing In

Well wisher from India emails us: “It looks like the Andra Pradesh govt is putting the squeeze on the Sathya Sai trust. It appears that the Govt has a definite strategy in mind over a period, and hence the politicians and govt officials ha…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 24, 2011

Even Bigger Stash, Secret Vaults, False Ceilings and Walls at Sai Baba’s Ashram?

Our regular well-wisher from India has just emailed: “The Andhra Pradesh police have definite intelligence of the existence of secret vaults, and concealed storage in false ceilings and behind false walls in Yajur mandir, Sai Baba’s personal liv…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 22, 2011

Picture Forms of Shaken Sathya Sai Baba Devotees Quitting En Masse

Our Indian well-wisher has just reported: “News is constantly trickling in from Puttaparthi that Sai Baba devotees have been shaken by the huge haul of wealth in Yajur Mandir, as well as big cash seizures in the following days. Many SB devotees…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 22, 2011

Could Sathya Sai Treasury Scandals Lead to India’s Watergate?

I have listened to many country’s national anthems. But, I must say, for purely musical reasons, the Indian national anthem has long been my favourite. The melody unfailingly tugs at my heartstrings. Even so, when I listen to it these days, there is…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 22, 2011

Has Sathya Sai Baba’s Will Been Found? Which Will will Prevail? Divine or Earthly Will?

In a communication just received, a private source of information relates: “Bhagwati is pro Satyajit and hence threatened to quit the trust, but was pacified. Day before yesterday in a trust meeting, several trust members walked out in a huff. S…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 19, 2011

Reports of Sathya Sai Central Trust Van Laden With Treasure Seized By Police

FLASH This story seems only broken as yet via the India Today television news channel. Overnight (Australian Eastern Standard Time), a usually reliable source of ours with Andhra Pradesh-related police sources reported that Andhra Pradesh State Pol…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 18, 2011

After Decades of Dormancy, Some Indian Media Now Question Sathya Sai Baba

Given that Robert Priddy‘s and my dear friend the late V.K. Narasimhan was once its Editor, I find a touch of irony in seeing that the Express Group is one of those beginning, if timorously, to venture a critical opinion on Sathya Sai Baba. Wit…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 18, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba Buried Treasure: Need To Probe Sai Central Trust

The Indian correspondent whom I mentioned in my blogs of the last two days has, in addition, raised a number of questions that may fairly be asked of the Sathya Sai Central Trust. – see: ‘Secret Swami’ (Late) Sai Baba: Vast Millions In Hoard Fo…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 18, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba Foretold He Would ‘Die’ Circa 2022. Archival Evidence

Here is further evidence for the best known of the late Sathya Sai Baba’s predictions for the year of his death – circa 2022. See my blog: Official Sai Baba Documents Show His Death Date Prophecies Failed. Posted by Barry Pittard on June 12, 2011.

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jun 13, 2011

Puttaparthi becoming a ghost town?

One cannot be but sorry for all those poor Indians whose livelihoods have been built around the popularity of Sathya Sai Baba, no more than one can be glad that the big money-making property tycoons – including Sathya Sai Baba family members an…

by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on Jun 7, 2011

Strong Sai Baba sex abuse testimony from ex-’form boy’

Another communication from the Indian ex-student using the pen-name ‘Raman Sharma’ (whose full identity is known to us with certainty but who is in need of continued protection from aggressive Sai Baba devotees). This testimony makes it e…

by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on May 10, 2011

Brian Steel Exposes Sathya Sai Baba On Glaring Historical Mistakes

Select writings from Brian Steel’s Extensive Opus. Sathya Sai Baba can be documented by any conscientious reader as having made contradictory statements and egregious historical and scientific blunders. These include his remarks on Jesus Christ an…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Apr 27, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba Is Dead. Said He Would Rule the World and Die Aged 96

Sathya Sai Baba died today, Sunday morning. A Puttaparthi hospital official says: “Sai Baba is no more with us physically. He breathed his last at 7:40am and died due to cardio-respiratory failure.” The self-described fullest incarnation of God e…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Apr 24, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba to be ‘resurrected’ on Easter Day?

From one of my Indian sources, a well known Indian who knows the inner working of the sb ashram and had been in the forefront of the sb expose for several years and known personally to me for years, I received this today: “As of 4 pm ( April 23…

by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on Apr 23, 2011

Critical Spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba places Puttaparthi under police cordon

Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), April 21 (IANS) With the condition of spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba turning very critical, this small pilgrim town in Anantapur district, about 150 km from Bangalore, has been placed under police cordon. Hundreds of p…

by The Sikkim Times on Apr 21, 2011

Sathya Sai Trust Officials Say Sai Baba Out of Hospital Soon

A Sathya Sai Central Trust “important press release” just to hand (see notice below) has begun to appear on various prominent Sathya Sai Baba related sites on the web. It notes that “for several days, His (sic) condition was a cause for concern”. In…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Apr 15, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba on illness and death

Despite the detailed statement by Dr. Safaya on all the steps taken to treat Sathya Sai Baba’s multiple illness condition, his all too reassuringly diplomatic style does little to dispel the seriousness of the guru’s critical condition. I…

by Sathya Sai Baba Deceptions Exposed on Apr 6, 2011

Pacemaker ‘Avatar’ Says ‘I am not this body’. Worried Devotees Pray For His Body

As of 28 March 2011, we have a pacemaker avatar. The Lord of Lords, the Avatar of Avatars. The now hump-backed, immobile faced, golf-cart carried God on earth. He says that all the world loves him. But of course most people in the world at large have…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Apr 2, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba Hospitalized, Despite Hailing His Extraordinary ‘Health’

Stop Press! News of Sathya Sai Baba’s hospitalization are breaking in these last hours. Only a sanitized version of health problems afflicting Sathya Sai Baba is possible. Any reader of informed chroniclers – such as Robert Priddy, Brian Steel,

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Mar 29, 2011

‘Marie Claire’ Magazine: April 2011. Sathya Sai Baba Still Further Exposed

In the article: ‘Holy Man Or Hoax’, the world-famous ‘Marie Claire’ magazine has just furthered the exposure of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide cult. Writing for the Australian edition of ‘Marie Claire’ (April 2011),

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Mar 14, 2011

Sathya Sai Baba’s Mastery of ‘The Big Lie’

Among the plethora of Puttaparthi untruths, there is the constant repetition, mantra-like and mind-numbing, from Sai Baba and many of his followers about the supposedly vast millions who follow him. He, like many other misleaders of the world, long a…

by Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba on Jan 31, 2011

Professor Erlendur Haraldsson and Robert Priddy

basengelbarts — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:12:25 +0000

See the blog Professor Erlendur Haraldsson – by Robert Priddy: very revealing materials! In this major blog about Erlendur Haraldsson is the revelation by Priddy of several e-mails he received from Haraldsson remarking on Sathya Sai Baba’s homosexuality and on the guru’s psychological traits that mark him a a person under strong delusions about himself – either This parapsychologist told him over a decade ago how he had learned of Sai Baba’s homosexuality, information he withheld from the public.

Robert Priddy also discusses the investigations in the 1970s by his friend Erlendur Haraldsson and puts them in the context of developments since 1999 which Haraldsson has since ignored, despite most of the evidence being contrary to many of the ‘miraculous’ the claims against which Haraldsson could find no evidence. See Erlendur Haraldsson and Robert Priddy on Sathya Sai Baba

Sathya Sai Baba’s ignorance of science plus (links)

robertpriddy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:26:18 +0000

SCIENCE AND THE UNKNOWN vs. RELIGIOUS FAITH
SAI BABA’S ‘DIVINE COSMIC IGNORANCE’ OF ASTRONOMY The supposedly auspicious Mahashivaratri discourse of 2001 is here shown to be a hodge-podge of scriptural misconceptions and scientific howlers.
SAI BABA CLAIMS TO BE MAGNETIC, THINGS STICK TO HIM He explained his inability to walk properly saying the earth is so attracted to him he can hardly move his feet – actually he had a serious hip joint failure!
SAI ON MAGNETISM A tour de force of exhibited ignorance of science
MORE SAI BABA ON MAGNETISM, CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER A howler for scientists!
SAI’S MASSIVE IGNORANCE OF PHYSICS AND THE ATOM EXPOSED Not even high school level explanations!
THE “OMNISCIENT AVATAR” AND HIS IGNORANCE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE in his very own words. More fantastic rubbish on one but ignorami can credit
SAI BABA FADS, FALSE BELIEFS, FALLACIES AND FANTASIESThe ‘ignorance is bliss’ fallacy – plus SB’s pseudo-philosophy, anti-intellectualism, disdain for scholars and science.
SAI’S MISUNDERSTANDING OF EARTH EVENTS IN BLAMING MANKINDAll natural catastrophes are due to “man’s bad behaviour”, and ‘God’ is blameless!
‘FORGET THE PAST’ – SHALLOW, IMPRACTICAL, FLAWED ADVICE
NATURE AS ‘THE BEST TEACHER’ – SAI AS A BAD ONE Simplistic ideas about human intelligence and the nature of animals
SAI BABA’S IGNORANCE AND FAILED PREDICTIONS ABOUT COMPUTERS

PROMOTIONS OF SATHYA SAI BABA BY TOP OFFICIAL OF THE SATHYA SAI ORGANIZATION, HEAD OF RADIO SAI
Dr.G. Venkataraman – physicist ‘explains’ Sathya Sai Baba Dr. G. Venkataraman rambles on denigrating scientists and science and promoting Sathya Sai Baba – as God descended to earth – and his most spurious speculations (‘teachings’) about an invisible beyond.
G. Venkataraman – Chief propagandist for ‘God’ G. Venkataraman is keen to imprint on his readers that, in studying anything about science, they are observing “The Glory of God”. This is, of course, an assumption and is not even a testable hypothesis, being a vague (undefined and indefinite) conception which is entirely non-operational.
The most gullible physicist alive? Dr. G. Venkataraman writes in Part 4 of his 7-part series entitled “In Quest of Infinity” on his Radio Sai website “You know, when I think about it all, I am simply wonder struck.
Dr.G. Venkataraman – physicist ‘explains’ Sathya Sai Baba Venkataraman rambles on denigrating scientists and science and promoting Sathya Sai Baba – as God descended to earth – and his most spurious speculations (‘teachings’) about an invisible beyond.

Internet defamer is exposed by numerous writers

basengelbarts — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:23:44 +0000

There are a number of Sai devotees who use much time to attack people who have left Sai Baba and have told about their experiences, what was wrong there and what they know about the sexual abuse and other dark matters. My friend Robert Priddy has been attacked more than any other single ex-follower, and especially by a Mr. Moreno. However, various writers and professionals have defended Robert against these attacks which are ‘extremely long on accusation and woefully short on hard evidence’. I cannot see that Mr. Moreno has shown a single instance of Priddy telling a lie, which Moreno claim Priddy does in almost everything he writes! While Moreno writes only accusatory postings against very many ex-followers of Sathya Sai, Priddy’s writings ar of a serious kind, and he also writes about a wide range of other subjects, as can be seen here Here are some of the articles which defend Priddy. You can see that Moreno is very extreme as a fanatic and goes to any length to try to create suspicion about Priddy, but without anything which is to be relied on.

GERALD MORENO’S FAILED FLAME WAR ON WIKIPEDIA AGAINST PRIDDY

The pro-Sathya Sai Baba Campaign of Gerald (‘Joe’) Moreno Hate campaign of Gerald Joe Moreno

Serious defamation attempt by Moreno defeated A case study of a Sai Baba fanatic

Kevin R.D. Shepherd writes an extensive defense of Robert Priddy’s integrity and his credentials See Gerald Moreno’s photo and more here

Gerald Moreno: No Real Sai Baba Devotee Could Applaud

Serious defamation attempt by Moreno defeated A case study of a Sai Baba fanatic Kevin R.D. Shepherd writes an extensive defense of Robert Priddy’s integrity and his credentials See Gerald Moreno’s photo and more here

Gerald Moreno: No Real Sai Baba Devotee Could Applaud

Literature about Sathya Sai Baba

basengelbarts — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:20:52 +0000

Tal Brooke excerpts from ‘Avatar of Night’ The first published whistle-blower on Sathya Sai Baba sex abuses – showing important scanned pages from his book ‘Avatar of Night’

Tal Brooke: Sathya Sai Baba exposé reviewed A number of reviews of Tal Brooke’s book ‘Avatar of Night’ written by Amazon books’ customers

‘Sai Inner Views and Insights’ by Howard Murphet Review with brief excerpts of the last hagiography on Sathya Sai Baba by Murphet

Howard Murphet ‘Man of Miracles’ One of the earliest, most productive and most read authors, Howard Murphet, proclaimed Sathya Sai Baba as the “Man of Miracles”. Murphet had speculative otherworldly beliefs and supported other discredited theories and ‘masters’

William ‘Bill’ McKay Aitken’s Sai hagiography A Scottish follower of Sathya Sai Baba who considers himself an expert on comparative religion (though without qualifications) exhibits his bias of faith and weak research

‘Conversations with Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba’ by Dr. J. Hislop A kind of bible for nearly all Sai devotees, where Sai Baba’s answers to questions not answered elsewhere – many surprising claims made there and numerous directly absurd ones too.

‘My Baba and I’ by Dr. John Hislop presenting diverse Sathya Sai Baba supposed miracles of an extreme kind. The ever-credulous Dr. John Hislop related impossible miracles and the like

‘Seeking Divinity’ – talks by Dr. John Hislop - a late product of Hislop’s viewpoints based on his talks, not least advancing ‘incredible’ claims of miracles, which have always been the key attraction of Sathya Sai Baba to the ‘spiritual seeker’

Dr. Samuel Sandweiss: ‘The Holy Man and the Psychiatrist’ etc. The psychiatrist turned spiritual-religious preacher was an early hagiographer promoting Sathya Sai Baba a God Incarnate. Later he acted as another cover-up man for the guru and, according to the “teachings” of this psychologically very ignorant ‘divine universal teacher’ he sees rejecting all worldly desires and immersion on ‘divine madness’ as the palliative to all human ills.

Authors who praise Sathya Sai Baba Many are the hagiographers who praise Sathya Sai Baba to the skies, but never blame him for a single thing and hide away all his glaring errors, contradictions, breaks of faith, plus all untoward events in his ashrams, including the many sexual abuse allegations and his being an accessory to the fact of murders

Vishal Arora – New Delhi Indian Journalist – on Sathya Sai Baba The prominent independent author writes about his investigatory visit to Sathya Sai baba’ s main ashram and more Vishal Arora Indian exposes Sathya Sai Baba

Dr. Bhatia’s “Dreams and realities face to face with God” Including first fateful interview with Sai Baba – the detailed account published by Bhatia of his first interview in which together with his male friend Sham he “surrendered totally” to Sai Baba in physical embrace etc. is as explicit an account of sex as was publishable by him at the time.

On visits to Sathya Sai Baba ashrams – information

basengelbarts — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:33:55 +0000

Thinking of Visiting Sathya Sai Baba ashrams?
Sathya Sai Baba ashram visits

Visiting Sathya Sai Baba ashrams (photos)

AT SATHYA SAI ASHRAMS – 1
AT SATHYA SAI ASHRAMS – 2
VISITORS TO SAI BABA ASHRAMS (3)
SATHYA SAI ASHRAMS – 4

VIP visitors to Sai Baba ashrams
Sathya Sai Baba ashrams in decline
Report: few Westerners stay in or even visit Sai ashrams
Westerners desert Sai Baba’s ashrams, says recent visitor

Sathya Sai Baba’s major blunders about Jesus

basengelbarts — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:27:23 +0000

Sai Baba on Moses’ love of Jesus!

Sai Baba confusion on the Birth date of Jesus

Sai Baba self-contradictions about Jesus’s sufferings

Sai Baba contradictions on the early years of Jesus

Sai Baba self-contradicts on Jesus’ birth & 3 kings from the East

Sai Baba flip-flops on the divine status of Jesus

Sai Baba howler about (St.) Paul

Sai Baba tells that Romans were originally Jews!

Sai Baba on Jesus’ having eleven disciples

Prashanthi Nilayam Murders 1993 in Sathya Sai Baba’s bedroom – sources

basengelbarts — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:29:04 +0000

Links to some of the many articles about the notorious 1993 Prashanthi Nilayam murders issue:-

1) Overview of the murders if Sai Baba’s bedroom and how Robert Priddy came to learn of the blackmail by Sai officials behind the police executions of four intruder devotees from V.K. Narasimhan
(Scanned record of notes on V.K.Narasimhan’a confidences about the murders) PART TWO Recorded notes in situ of conversations with V.K.N. where he revealed covered-up facts about the six murders in Sai Baba’s temple complex

2) More concerning the 1993 murders in the Prashanthi Nilayam Temple complex

3) How I came to learn of the blackmail by Sai officials behind the police executions of four intruder devotees from V.K. Narasimhan

4) Interview on BBC documentary ‘The Secret Swami’ with V.P.B. Nair, former home minister of Andhra Pradesh during the 1993 murders

5) Excerpts from Indian newspaper reports on the murders in Sai Baba’s vicinity and the cover-up

6) Review of the cover-up and what cannot be denied

7) IAS official V. Ramnath’s reported account of Vijay Prabhu and the murder attempt here

8 ) Prabhu’s involvement reported from an IAS source

9) Murder coverage in ‘The Week’ (India) with explanatory diagram/drawing

10) Conny Larsson’s recall of his learning in Puttaparthi about the 1993 murders

11) Murder of Swiss-German lady in her Prashanthi Nilayam apartment as used by Sai Baba coterie to blackmail police in 1993 to murder four intruders in SB’s bedroom

12) Writ petition to the High Court – Andhra Pradesh for investigation of the murders

13) Additional evidence from an independent source

14) Have your say at the Public Petition for Official Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba and his worldwide Organization (over 1500 persons have signed this petition so far)

Premanand's main exposure work

Articles by the India Skeptic and rationalist Association of India’s chief investigator of the 1993 murders episode, Basava Premanand who was burgled, and attacked as a result,
see the BBC interview with him here Key points on the murders summarized – by B. PremanandMurders issue – a defamatory critic rebutted

Furthe r rebuttals about the murders

Conclusive rebuttal about the murders

Conclusive final rebuttal on the murders

More on the 1993 murders episode, cover-up and follow-up:-

Sai Baba on the morning after the murders near him

Video Resources: -
“The Secret Swami‘ showcased with selected transcripts and brief video clips

‘Seduced’ (DR, Danish Broadcasting, Denmark’s national television and radio broadcaster):
http://www.exbaba.com/seduced/seduced.wmv (80 MB, Broadband)
http://www.exbaba.com/movies.html#seduced_ (21 MB, Modem)

More about the 1993 murders

Sathya Sai Baba Bedroom Murders – Part 2
Sathya Sai Baba Bedroom Murders – Part 3
Sathya Sai Bedroom Murders – Part 4
Sathya Sai Baba Bedroom Murders – Part 5

How were the infamous murders covered-up?
Murders in the Prashanthi temple – reflections 1
Murders in the Prashanthi temple – reflections 2

See also notes recording V.K. Narasimhan conversations in the 1990s at the ashrams here and here

Further, see the unofficial reports by an IAS officer, V.Ramnath.
http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/16/Ramu_Prabhu.html

From the BBC’s documentary on Sathya Sai Baba – ‘The Secret Swami’ on the infamous 1993 murders in his bedroom:-

Tanya Datta: Sex abuse is not the only controversy tainting the God man’s reputation. On a June night back in nineteen ninety-three, four devotees broke into Sai Babas quarters. They were armed with knives. Their motives are unclear. All four were close to Sai Baba. Some say they wanted to warn him about corruption in the Ashram. Others claim their intention was to kidnap or even kill Sai Baba. As they approached they were stopped by four of Sai Baba’s attendants.

Mr. V. P. Nair, former Home Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh government

In the struggle that followed two of his attendants were killed and the other two badly injured. Hearing the commotion Sai Baba escaped through a back stairway and raised the alarm. Heavily armed police arrived on the scene.

Transcript of the BBC’s interview with V.P.B. Nair, Home Secretary of Andhra Pradesh in 1993 at the time of the murders in Sathya Sai Baba’s bedroom, whose position gave him insight into the entire known case:-

VPB Nair: So these boys, they ran and locked themselves up in a room. And then in the whole, all around a lot of pandemonium and people gathered so the boys were shivering like rats in that small hole.
Tanya Datta: The four men barricaded themselves into Sai Baba’s bedroom. There was a stand-off with the police. Then the order was given to go in. What happened next is hotly disputed. The official version seemed clear.
VPB Nair: These four boys charged towards the police with the knives and started stabbing the inspector and other personnel. Because they were attacked they opened fire.
Tanya Datta: In self-defence?
VPB Nair:In self-defence. They opened fire and killed all the four boys. This the police story.
Tanya Datta: Velayudhan Nair rejects the police version of events. He should know. Until two thousand and two he was Home Secretary of Andhra Pradesh and in charge of the state police. On coming to office he examined the files and found that the original police report was riddled with lies and inconsistencies. This was later exposed by a CID investigation.
VPB Nair: Two or three daggers cannot be a match to roaring guns. So this story of the police being attacked and the police shooting in self-defence is totally baseless.
Tanya Datta: So are you suggesting that the police executed the boys that night?
VPB Nair: In absolute… this is absolute cold-blooded murder.
Tanya Datta: Some police officers were arrested but never charged. The case was eventually dropped. Sai Baba has always had a close relationship with the police. Even today, senior officers are special guests at the Ashram. With friends in such high places Sai Baba seems to be untouchable. Any attempt to investigate the goings-on at his Ashram even, murder, appear doomed to failure. Critics say police connections ensured that Sai Baba wasn’t even interviewed, despite being one of the witnesses to the events of that night.

Transcript of interview with Basava Premanand – Rationalist & Author:
Basava Premanand: The only person who was a witness to the murders of mysterious deaths, that was Sai Baba and he was not examined as, for evidence at all and those students also who were there, two or three students they were not examined at all.
Tanya Datta: Why do you think that the nineteen ninety-three murders weren’t properly investigated?
Basava Premanand: The central government stopped the investigation because if the investigation takes place, a lot of things will come out. One thing. Economic offences, sex offences, all these things will come out.
Tanya Datta: Shocked at what he considers a travesty of justice, the former Home Secretary is now seeking to reopen the case.
VPB Nair The killing of the boys was only to buy silence. If the boys are taken to the court of law, if they were arrested and taken to the court of law, they would have stated several things including why did they want to meet Baba. (See also The Sathya Sai Baba bedroom Murders)