By: Express News Service | Ahmedabad | Updated: December 5, 2019 9:33:38 am The governments decision came after several rounds of meetings between Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, CM Rupani, senior officials of the education department, CBSE officials, school principal and parents of over 850 students on Wednesday. (Representational Image)

Three days after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) cancelled the affiliation of Delhi Public School (DPS) East Ahmedabad, the Gujarat government on Wednesday decided to take over the management of the school till the end of the current academic session.

Announcing the decision, Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama said, After a meeting with CBSE officials, the Chief Minister and listening to the parents, we have taken this historic decision to run the school from Class I till XII till the end of this academic session.

The government decision to take over the school came after several rounds of meetings between Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, senior officials of the education department, CBSE officials, school principal and parents of over 850 students on Wednesday. CBSE deputy secretary Jaiprakash Chaturvedi, and regional officer from Ajmer, Poonam Rani, were part of the Central Board delegation.

Chudasama added, We understand the difficulties children may face if they are shifted to a new school in the middle of the session. So, keeping in mind the benefit of 850 children, the CM took this decision. No child will be asked to shift to another school till this academic session ends.

Following the announcement, the school sent out a message to all parents that said, Dear Parent, this is to inform that all classes from I to XII are functional from tomorrow. Kindly send your wards as per regular schedule, which was signed by the DPS East Ahmedabad principal, Hitesh Puri.

The school got into trouble after it came to light that it has leased out its land without permission from the CBSE to the ashram of self-styled guru Nithyananda who is facing a case for allegedly keeping women in illegal confinement on the ashram premises.

On Sunday, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) withdrew its affiliation to the school citing that the school submitted a forged No-Objection Certificate (NoC) and contradictory statements on leasing out land to the ashram. On Monday, the State Education Department withdrew its permission to the school to run classes I to VIII.

The parents have been demanding that government take over the school till it gets documents and approvals. This has come as a very good news for us and the children whose future was at stake and were suffering for no fault of theirs. My wife had tears in her eyes when I told her about this and our children jumped with joy, said Vikas Sood, one of the parents.

School principal Hitesh Puri said the school should be given three months to submit necessary documents and get back the affiliation. The affiliation was taken away mid-session, so where will the students go? How will they prepare for the board exams? If school has no NoC, it should be given time (to submit one), he said.

On Wednesday, students of Class X and XII sat for their first pre-board that was earlier scheduled for Monday. Students of other classes continued to camp outside the school till evening and called off their protest after the government announced its decision. They had placards saying, We want our school back, education is power. A delegation of parents also met governor Acharya Devvrat, requesting him to intervene.

A resolution passed by the State Education Department late on Wednesday stated that District Education Officer (rural) and District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) will run the school in co-ordination till March 31, 2020. It further clarified that the state government will bear no expenses to run the school but will utilise school funds for the same. The resolution also stressed upon DEO (rural) and DPEO to ensure the school building gets fire safety certificate and structural stability certificate from the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA).

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This comes a day after the CBSE cancelled the affiliation granted to Delhi Public School in the city for allowing the ashram to function illegally within its premises.

The district authorities in rural Ahmedabad on Monday made the devotees vacate rape accused self-styled godman Nithyanandas ashram as part of the crackdown against the controversial religious preacher. Nithyananda is wanted by Gujarat Police for child abuse and other criminal charges like abduction and kidnap.

Visuals from the scene showed all of them leaving the ashram as police and district administration officials took over the property and seized laptop, mobiles and other electronic devices.

This comes a day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) cancelled the affiliation granted to the Delhi Public School in greater Ahmedabad. The affiliation was cancelled after it was established that the Delhi Public School in rural Ahmedabad (eastern outskirts) allowed Nithyanandas ashram to function within its premises through a forged NOC (No Objection Certificate).

PTI quoted the CBSE note as saying, The provisional /general affiliation upto senior secondary level granted to the Delhi Public School, Hirapur, Taluka Daskroi, Ahmedabad, stands withdrawn with immediate effect."

The Board, however, allowed students of classes 10 and 12 to appear for the Board's examination in the year 2020, and shifting of students of classes 9 and 11 to nearby CBSE-affiliated schools.

The state Education Department was also earlier asked to conduct the inquiry expeditiously and convey the outcome of the report and status of the NOC issued by the state department to the school for seeking CBSE affiliation.

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According to sources, police have secured video footage from the seized devices which show the physical assault and harassment meted out to the minor children living there.

Mondays incidents come as part of a crackdown by Gujarat Police against Nithyananda and his ashram, after a Bengaluru man approached the Gujarat State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (GSCPCR) in November and also the Gujarat High Court.

The complainant Janardhana Sharma, is a former disciple of Nithyananda, who was once closely associated with him and had alleged that his children were brainwashed and tortured at the ashram. While his two younger daughters returned to him following police action, his two elder daughters refused to leave Nithyanandas organisation.

However, the Gujarat High Court on November 26, had ordered the police to track the two women who were seemingly in Trinidad and were voluntarily part of his organisation. The HC also advised the police to consult the Interpol, Ministry of External Affairs, and other relevant authorities to trace the two elder daughters.

Gujarat Police since then, had booked Nithyananda and arrested two of his aides under Sections 365 (abduction), Section 344 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code along with sections of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act. The suspects, Pranapriya and Tatavapriya, continue to remain in jail as a local court denied bail to them on Monday.

More recently, the Karnataka CID and Gujarat Police had carried out a joint raid at his ashram in Bidadi near Bengaluru.

Speaking to a TV channel, Janardhana Sharma said, They are all running away because of all the evidence which was seized by the police, and this is only the beginning. The police have seized from the ashram several mobiles, laptops and tablets in which many photos and videos can be found of all the beating and harassment done to the kids there. All this evidence must be investigated and further action should be taken against such persons. It was being run neither as a school nor as an ashram.

Meanwhile, Nithyananda remains absconding as he has been avoiding trial in the rape case against him.Ahmedabad (Rural) Superintendent of Police (SP), RV Asari, had earlier told reporters that he has left the country.

According to whistleblowers, he is currently in Ecuador after he made his way out of the country through Nepal, which allows Indians to travel there without passports.

A copy of Nithyanandas passport accessed by TNM shows it was due to expire in September 2018 and was not renewed due to the rape charges. However, the Ministry of External Affairs stated that it is not aware where Nithyananda currently is.

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Rajni Ohri, Founder, Ohria Ayurveda

Rajni Ohri was 12 years old when she first developed an Ayurvedic cream for herself at home. An ardent follower of research on Ayurveda since her schooldays, she created the hand cream by blending bee wax, ghee, and essential oils.

In an interaction with SMBStory, the 45-year-old entrepreneur says,

Rajni identifies as being a nature-lover and therefore a keen observer of natural remedies. Seeing the body of research on Ayurveda in the country where it originated, she decided to revive its history and bring home the immense benefits of the science of Ayurveda. This was the impetus behind her beauty and wellness brand, Ohria, founded in 2018 in New Delhi with a capital of Rs 1 crore from her personal savings.

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SMBStory: What is Ohria? Tell us more about the beginnings of your business.

Rajni Ohri: Ohria Ayurveda is an organic and natural skin and beauty brand which has an extensive range of natural Ayurvedic products made from traditional formulations. The offerings involve sourcing the most potent and sacred herbs and plants as ingredients from the Himalayas and other reliable sources, using the secret formulations that I have inherited from my teacher, and nurturing and developing each and every product with love and passion.

Under the guidance of my acharya in Kailash ashram in Rishikesh, I learned the preparation of hair oils, butter, salves, pishti, bhasms etc, and have acquired holistic knowledge of Ayurveda from him. Interestingly, I was just 12 years old when I experimented with making my own cream. I loved the fact that it was 100 percent natural. My passion led me to create the products for years from home, until I was coaxed to create more for everyones benefits. I even learnt aroma therapy from Penny Price in London.

Ohria's hair and facial cleanser

The brand Ohria was started in 2018 after two years of intensive research. The name Ohria denotes the five basic elements (panchamahabhutas) that all the objects in the universe are composed of, according to Ayurveda. A balance of these five elements can be achieved through Ayurveda to attain perfect health and beauty.

SMBS: What are your primary offerings? And, whats their USP?

RO: Ohria products are free of polyethylene glycol, silicones, heavy metals, preservatives, and pesticides, and are completely organic. They are aimed at benefiting everyone with good health and beauty.

The product portfolio ranges from bathing bars, mists, moisturisers, serums, and facial cleansers to body lotions, hydrating gels, shower wash, shower oils, body butter, and much more.

Our manufacturing unit is in Kirti Nagar, New Delhi.We even have a small farm in Gurugram, where we have planted hibiscus, tulsi, raatrani, neem, and many more herbs and plants which we need on a day-to-day basis. We are thus also saving on costs.

Ohria is right now listed on major online portals including Amazon and Flipkart. It has an offline presence in Taj Hotel in New Delhi.

SMBS: What was the strategy behind the company diversifying into so many categories?

RO: Ohria is not just another Ayurveda beauty brand selling its products. We also offer rituals that can be easily incorporated into ones life.

We surveyed and observed the concerns that have been bothering people through generations related to the hair and skin. We have therefore curated a range of formulations based on the modern-day needs.

The brand also specialises in beauty products and the old, lost wellness accessories used by our Indian kings and queens, like the kansa vataki, neem comb, copper tongue-cleaner, eyewash cup, etc.

Basically, there are six dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and social. Ohria believes in educating everybody about them through its workshops which the brand organises often. We help people make lifestyle changes and maintain a sound, substantial body by following simple Ayurveda practices. We offer a wide variety of products, each addressing a particular health need or targeted at a specific part of the body. For example, we recommend using cold-pressed sesame oil for hand and nail moisturising, as it supplies nutrients like calcium and iron. It is anti-inflammatory, rich in antioxidants, and strengthens bones and nails, with regular usage.

Similarly, Ohria cleansers, such as the papaya, yoghurt, and Amrit Ras cleanser, topically remove dirt and dust. Our clients have noticed a remarkable reduction in whiteheads and blackheads, as the soya extract and yoghurt deeply cleanse pores and remove deep-seated impurities; the lactic acid in yoghurt also dissolves dead cells.

SMBS: What are your challenges in sustaining the business?

RO: The beauty industry is huge and very competitive. In the Ayurveda industry, the right knowledge is key to success. Clean beauty is the way to live, and this is what the brand religiously follows. Educating people on Ayurveda and its benefits is the challenge in a world of chemical/ artificial beauty-driven products that offer instant but short-lived results.

Ohria skincare range

At Ohria, we believe in being genuine and true to our roots and ethics. We are spreading the message of Ayurveda being a holistic science of life. Ayurveda somehow lost its glory because of the growing beauty industry offering instant results. However, we strongly believe that knowledge of using traditional products can change the user perspective with long-term results, and this is what makes Ohria different from its competition.

SMBS: What are your future prospects?

RO: We want to grow and expand Ohria to reach everyone who is looking for genuine, pure, and close-to-nature beauty and wellness products. Going beyond the products, we also aim to make more and more people aware of Ayurveda and its holy and true essence. We are also planning to hit more retail spaces soon.

(Edited by Athirupa Geetha Manichandar)

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When a young woman travels from New York City to an ashram in India to overcome her struggles with mental health, an exuberant guru's lessons provoke reflections on prayer, summer camp, and the role of Judaism in the lives of her late father and his biological mother, a Holocaust survivor he never met. At select moments, the audience is invited to move, chant, and reflect on their own spiritual journeys and identities-the ones we inherit and the ones we make for ourselves. A funny, poignant, lightly interactive solo show about spiritual healing and identity. http://www.thejewintheashram.com.

"The Jew in the Ashram is devastating, hilarious, comfortably interactive and piercingly real. Amanda's story is all of ours in its relatability and also unique to her own journey. Jew or not, adult or teen, all will enjoy this piece is as both a stand-alone work of art and an educational experience, setting the stage for further exploration." Sarah Sokolic, Executive Director, Lab/Shul

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In yet another hearing of Nithyananda case, there are four more parents who have come forward and filed Habeas Corpuses and stated their grievances that the Gujarat Police is keeping the children against their will and not letting the children also meet their parents. The parents and children were as follows - Girish Turlapati father of Natanga Turlapati (14), Satish Selvakumar father of Prisha Satish(16), Anil Kumar father of Bhuvan Pallav (17), Mani Ramalingam father of Ashwath Mani (17).

In these habeas Corpora, the petitioner claims that the 'Gurukul has become a war zone. What is the need for so much police in a place of education?' Also that the children are kept against their will in the ashram premises.

When the matter came to hearing in High Court, the judge said that the minors who are in the ashram will have to be produced in the court so that it can be understood that the children are not kept against their will. The children and the investigating officer need to be called to the court and their statements will be recorded before the court of law. When the parents were called, the court individually asked all of the children on whether they wanted to live with parents or in the ashram. To this, the children replied that they indeed wanted to live in the ashram.

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The judge enquired that since the adults (both saadhvis) and in-charge of the ashram were in police custody, who was taking care of the children in Ashram. There were several ashram volunteers who were present in the court and said that they are the temporary custodians of the children. The court, not convinced, said that there needs to be a child welfare committee official and a lady official present at the ashram at all times.

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The petitioners also stated their grievance that the children had been interrogated in an abusive manner and that there were obscene videos that were shown to the children by police officers. That, the police officers had been abusing the children and were saying 'if you continue to be in the ashram, you will be raped.'

To this, the judge stated, "We all have to bear with the police investigation, but it is of utmost importance to this court that the children are not traumatized. Investigation shall not be thwarted or hampered for anything and if interrogation of children needs to be done - it needs to be done in a legal manner. They should not be traumatized", the judge said.

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The court told the public prosecutor representing the Gujarat police, that they (parents) can be frisked before entering and full checking can be done but you can't prevent the parents to meet children. Also that the parents can not be present during taking statements of the children (since they are witnesses in the case), and that 'no shelter to parents behind their children'.

In the end, the court also stated that there needed to be a CWC official and a lady officer also present during the statement recording of the children. While the written order was reserved for tomorrow, the judge stated that the parents' comings and goings will be recorded and they will be checked before entering the premises under investigation.

READ | Nithyananda's Ashram in Karnataka under lockdown, visitors entry prohibited

Lastly, the judge said, 'court is not concerned with the criminal investigation. Primarily it looks like none of the children arekept against their will. Police will allow parents to visit children from tomorrow.'

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When Sangeetha Arjunan died in 2014 at an ashram run by Nithyananda, a controversial godman who the police now say has fled the country, his organisation said she had suffered cardiac arrest.

But Sangeetha's mother, Jansi Rani, says she's certain her daughter was killed. And she wants the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the probe.

In an interview with India Today TV, Jansi Rani spoke at length about her ordeal, from the time when Sangeetha was still an inmate at Nithyananda's Bengaluru ashram to events surrounding her death.

'HELD CAPTIVE'

A native of Trichy, Sangeetha Arjunan lived in the Bengaluru ashram between 2008 and 2014. At the time of her death -- December 28, 2014 -- she headed the computer department. She was only 24.

Jansi Rani told India Today TV she made multiple attempts to bring her daughter back home.

Not only was Sangeetha in "a very bad state", but she also once admitted ashram authorities claimed the right to hit inmates, who consented to the harsh punishment in a signed form, Jansi Rani said.

Then, one day, Sangeetha herself said she wanted to come back, her mother said.

Jansi Rani gave a chilling account of what followed: no sooner had they reached home than four men arrived to take Sangeetha back; they claimed she had stolen from the ashram and threatened to go to the police.

Once at the ashram, Sangeetha was "held captive", and Jansi Rani wasn't allowed in despite going there "more than ten times" and standing outside the gates "for hours".

Jansi Rani said she wasn't allowed to speak to her daughter on the phone. She said two others in the ashram -- Hamsananda and Pranananda -- kept making excuses to avoid her calls.

The ashram "made me promise before God that I wouldn't go to the media," but also promised to return Sangeetha, she said. But it wasn't to be.

"I never saw my daughter again."

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'I DON'T HAVE ANYONE'

An official release with the Nithyananda Sangha's account of the circumstances surrounding Sangeetha's death can still be accessed on its website.

It says Sangeetha died of "sudden cardiac arrest", but that's not all: it goes on to describe a family "with a history of cardiac problems leading to death at a young age" and contains links to CCTV footage and testimonies by a number of people, including a video of Jansi Rani thanking Nithyananda for healing her.

But Sangeetha's family has said she did not have a heart condition.

"My daughter was killed. I am sure of it," Jansi Rani told India Today TV.

She said Nithyananda's organisation wanted to cremate Sangeetha at an ashram; it was only due to her "continuous insistence", she said, that she was allowed to bring her daughter home.

Then there's the issue of the post-mortems.

Jansi Rani said an initial examination was done only when she insisted on bring her daughter's body home to conduct last rites.

Relatives noticed swelling and clotting on her legs, Jansi Rani said, and she then complained at the Ram Nagar police station in Bengaluru.

A second post-mortem, carried out under pressure from Jansi Rani, found there were "no organs" inside Sangeetha's body.

A high court judge observed last year that the second autopsy "revealed that important organs were removed" in the first one, according to a report by The News Minute.

Jansi Rani said there's been no progress in the case.

"It has been five years since I filed a case in a Karnataka court," Jansi Rani said. "Only a year back did a judge say that the case can be transferred to CBI, but within ten days of the observation, the judge was transferred."

She remembered how, in 2014, she requested parents with children at the Nithyananda ashram to bring them back. "They should not face a fate similar to my daughter's," she said.

And she described the toll the ordeal has taken on her family.

"After my daughter, my husband -- heartbroken -- suffered for two years and then died," Jansi Rani said. "Now I dont have anyone."

"I have lost everything."

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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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Four minor students of a Rs Gurukul' run by godman Nithyananda were produced before the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday, after their parents alleged that they had been held Rs hostage' by the police.

The Gurukul-cum-Ashram (a residential school) is situated at Hirapur village on the outskirts of the city.

As the habeas corpus petitions came up for hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Justice S R Brahmbhatt asked police to immediately produce the four students -- two boys and two girls.

The four teenage students were produced before the court in the evening.

A habeas corpus petition is filed to obtain a direction from the court to the authorities to produce someone who has gone missing or is suspected to have been held in captivity illegally.

The parents claimed that they were not allowed to meet their children by the Ahmedabad district police, who are probing a complaint filed by another parent that his two daughters were held captive by the Ashram authorities. The petitioners alleged that their children had been "kept like hostages in the Gurukul" by the police who are investigating the case of missing girls.

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