to alleviate Jaggi Vasudevof Isha Foundationthe Supreme Court directed on Thursday tamil nadu police take no further action madras high court The order requires it to investigate two women suspected of illegal confinement in the ashram.
Supreme Court hands it over to itself Habeas Corpus Petition A man has taken High Court action claiming his two daughters were imprisoned on the premises of the Isha Foundation.
File a habeas corpus application seeking a direction to bring a missing or unlawfully detained person to court.
After the Isha Foundation moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court’s September 30 order to the Coimbatore police to collect details of all cases registered against the foundation and submit them to the court for further consideration, the Chief Justice A bench headed by DY Chandrachud passed the order.
The bench, which also included Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, directed the police not to take any further action based on the high court order.
It is said that the police will submit a status report to the Supreme Court as directed by the High Court.
Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the foundation, sought stay on the high court order and said around 150 police personnel had entered the foundation’s ashram and were probing every nook and cranny.
The Bench interacted with two women in the chamber via video conferencing and were informed that police had left the convent on Wednesday evening.
The two women also allegedly told the court that they lived in the foundation voluntarily.
The Supreme Court said the matter will be heard in the week starting October 14.
During the hearing, the judge sought to ask for details of two women whose fathers were suing the High Court for wrongful imprisonment by the Isha Foundation.
The High Court on September 30 passed an interim order on a habeas corpus petition filed by Dr S Kamaraj, who issued directions to the police to hand over his two daughters, who he claimed were being held in court Within the Isha Foundation and set them free in court.
The applicant is a retired professor tamil nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He has two daughters, both of whom have master’s degrees in engineering. Both of them joined the Isa Foundation.
The complainants’ grievance is that the foundation mistreats certain people, brainwashes them and converts them into monks, without even allowing their parents and relatives to meet them.
