States WestPosted at: Nov 22 2019 9:34PM

Ahmedabad, Nov 22 (UNI) The two sisters and disciple of controversial self-styled godman Swami Nityanand, for whose production in court their father had moved the Gujarat High Court, on Friday issued another video, presumably from a Caribbean country, claiming that they were ready to come to India, provided they were allowed to return under court protection.

The eldest daughter of ex-disciple of Nityananda, Janardan Sarma of Tamil Nadu, who had knocked the doors of the HC, alleging that his daughters have been kidnapped by the Ashram and taken abroad, Lopa Mudra and younger one, Nityanandita, issued the video and called for an open debate on the issue.

Nityanandita, who had dodged the police and other authorities reportedly to move out of India from the Ashram here, even alleged that her father (in the video she continuously addressed her father by his first name, Janardan) had tried to blackmail her earlier to file a rape case under the POCSO Act against Nityanand.

'Swamji (Nityanand) had not only reared four of us (three sisters and one brother) as his own children, but also taken care of Janardan and Bhuvaneshwari (parents) in a similar manner.

Lopa Mudra, the elder one, said they were willing to come to India for appearing before the Gujarat HC on November 26, the next date of hearing in the habeas corpus case.

She put forth five conditions for it. First, they should be given police and court protection till their return. Second, they should not be 'kidnapped' by their family. Third, they should not be arrested.

Fourth, the court should not order them with whom to live, as 'we both are major'.

Lastly, she demanded that the two ladies of the Ashram, including its local care-taker Pranpriya, who have been arrested by the police, should be released.

Meanwhile, Mr Sarma reiterated his allegations that the Ashram people have kidnapped his daughters.

'How could my daughter Nityanadita, who was just 18 when she had arrived in Ahmedabad eight months back, manage to go out of the country? Who arranged the money and Visa for her travel?

'I also want to understand as to what kind of spiritual training my daughters are getting from the Ashram people that they are calling their own parents kidnappers,' he added.

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