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Rape Accused Nithyananda Sets Up Own Nation

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Nithyananda Declares Own Nation Kailaasa

Nithyananda Declares Own Nation Kailaasa
Nithyananda Declares Own Nation Kailaasa

Rape accused and Godman Nithyananda may have fled India without a passport to save himself from a rape case registered against him in Karnataka. But he has set up his own nation after purchasing a private island from Ecuador in central Latin America.

Nithyananda has named the island as 'Kailaasa'. And it has its own passport, flag and emblem. He has also launched a website of the new nation, describing it as the greatest Hindu nation on earth.

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According to the website, Kailaasa (kailaasa.org) offers a "safe haven to all the world's practising, aspiring or persecuted Hindus...where they can peacefully live and express their spirituality, arts, and culture free from denigration, interference and violence".

The website even has its own Wikipedia page called Nithyanandapedia (Nithyanandapedia.org). "Nithyanandapedia is an effort to capture all the knowledge and expressions shared by His Divine Holiness Bhagavan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam - to have a one-stop-shop combining all His teachings in form of videos, audio, text, books, etc - combined with photographs that try and capture all the services He has offered and continues to offer to the world," says the page.

Notably, Nithyananda is being probed in several cases, including rape, torture, kidnapping and wrongful confinement of children, under the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

After a sex scandal and alleged abuse of girls at his ashram near Ahmedabad became public last month, the Gujarat Police informed court that Nithyananda is no longer in India.

According to reports, Nithyananda may have fled India in late 2018 after jumping bail. His passport expired in September 2018 and the local police had turned down his request for a renewal.