Isha Foundation Controversy, Sadhguru Ashram Raid, Sadhguru Ashram Professor Daughter, Isha Yoga: Globally renowned Isha Foundation run by famous Sadhguru is under legal trouble after Madarash High Court gave a nod to Coimbatore Police to raid Sadhguru's Ashram and carry out a search operation. Ever since then Isha Yoga has been trending on social media and netizens are wondering why Sadhguru is facing legal scrutiny. On Tuesday, a battalion of 150 police personnel, led by an Additional Superintendent of Police rank officer from Coimbatore, entered the Isha Foundation’s ashram in Thondamuthur. The Police force conducted inquiries, a day after the Madras High Court sought a report on all criminal cases registered against the foundation. Below is why the Police raided Sadhguru's Isha Foundation or Isha Yoga Center-
Why Isha Foundation led by Sadhguru is under legal trouble?
Hearing a petition filed by retired professor Dr. S Kamaraj, the Madras High Court ordered the Coimbatore Rural Police to investigate and submit a report. Dr. S Kamaraj had claimed that his two daughters Geeta Kamaraj (42) and Lata Kamaraj (39) were kept captive in the Coimbatore-based foundation. They alleged that the organisation was brainwashing people, turning them into sadhus and restricting their contact with their families.
Hence, a 150-member Police battalion raided the Isha Foundation in their search operation. As per reports, it contained three DSPs as well. A senior police officer was quoted saying that the operation is focused on a thorough investigation of the prisoners and searching the rooms of the foundation. This team was led by an Additional Superintendent of Police level officer of Coimbatore.
What did Professor Dr Kamaraj's daughters say?
When Kamaraj's petition said that his two daughters were kept against their will at the organisation's Isha yoga center in the foothills of Velliangiri in Coimbatore, the two women present in the court said they were staying there of their own free will and denied any compulsion or detention.
Though Kamaraj's daughters insisted that their stay at Isha was voluntary, Justices Subramanian and Sivagnanam were not fully convinced. "We want to know why a person who got his daughter married and established her well in life is encouraging the daughters of others to shave their heads and lead a hermit-like life. That is the suspicion," Justice Sivagnanam remarked during the proceedings.
Isha Foundation reacts to allegations and Police action
Isha Foundation issued a detailed note which reads, "Isha Foundation was founded by Sadhguru to impart yoga and spirituality to people. We believe that adult individual human beings have the freedom and the wisdom to choose their path. We do not ask people to get married or take up monkhood as these are individual choices. Isha Yoga Center is home to thousands who are not monks and a few who have taken Brahmacharya or Monkhood. Despite this, the Petitioner wanted the monks to be produced before the Court and the monks have presented themselves before the court. They have clearly stated that they are staying in Isha Yoga Center out of their own volition. Now that the matter is seized by the court, we hope truth will prevail and there is an end to all the unnecessary controversies created.."