The Nithyananda ashram today filed a police complaint accusing Sun Network owner Kalanidhi Maran and its top executive for morphing and telecasting visuals showing the controversial spiritual guru in a compromising position with an actress last year. In the complaint filed with city Police Commissioner J K Tripathy,the Bangalore-headquartered Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam also sought action against Maran and Sun TV's COO Hansraj Saxena holding them responsible for the network staff trespassing into their ashrams at various places and alleged assault of inmates. Talking to reporters,Dhyanapeetam's Nityasarvananda said,On March 3,2010,Sun TV aired footage that caused defamation to our organisation. So we have filed a case against Kalanidhi Maran and Hansraj Saxena. Kalanidhi is the brother of Dayanidhi Maran,who today quit as Union Textile Minister over the 2G scam. Both are grandnephews of DMK chief M Karunanidhi. Nithyananda was arrested last year after various channels telecast the purported video footage which the ashram had described as a conspiracy to malign his reputation. It had claimed that the images were morphed and alleged ashram inmates were subjected to physical attacks in various places after the video footage was aired. Nithyananda,who also faced criminal charges including rape,was arrested from Himachal Pradesh after remaining elusive for several weeks. The case registered in this connection is pending in a court in Ramanagara near Bangalore. Saxena is already in police custody in a cheating case filed by a Salem-based film distributor.
