D. Destruction of more than 50 ASMT temples, rapes, and assault of monks by militants and State Police🔗

• 97. On 2 March 2010, around 8:30 PM, THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM was in Tiruvannamalai. A militant group headed by neo-Hindutva militant leader Shivababu came to assassinate Him. Although THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM escaped, his disciple Sri Nithya Sharanagathananda was beaten by the militants. The ASMT community living in the monastery was forced to flee.

• 98. 3 March 2010, Salem, twenty policemen forcibly evicted the residents of the monastery. Subsequently, the police brought militants in police jeeps who vandalized the monastery, desecrated deities, beat male, female, and even elderly monks. A female monk was violently assaulted and raped by militants. She was dragged down the stairs from the second floor causing her spinal injuries and lifelong acute spinal pain.
• 99. The attacks were planned and not spontaneous. In certain instances, Sun TV premeditated and executed the violence.

On 3 March 2010, around 11 AM, Sun TV aired a piece of news portraying that the Porasapalayam ASMT Ayurvedic Hospital and Temple near Namakkal was set on fire. Around 12:30 PM an acquainted policeman Inspector Ishwar Murthy rushed to the Hospital and enquired and found the hospital to be perfectly safe. At around 1 PM, Sun News reporters with cameras showed up at the hospital and started filming the place. When asked by the founder in charge Dr. S Chandran (Sri Nithya Sarvananda), why their channel was portraying that the hospital had been set on fire and the temple was being vandalized (when in reality it wasn't), the reporters looked embarrassed and could not give any explanation. All they said was that they were late to arrive at the scene as their van had got punctured. The next day, 4 March 2010 media reported that no untoward incidents happened as the ASMT Ayurvedic Hospital and Temple had police protection. In 2012 the Chief Operations Officer of Sun TV gave a television interview accepting that the channel manufactured fake news to target THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM. Later in 2014, he reiterated this statement in an affidavit to a US court.

• 100. ASMT Temple's administrators, devotees, disciples, center-in-charges were threatened by government departments and police with malicious prosecution and vexatious litigations (lawfare). In a matter of six days, from 5th to 11th March 2010, three vexatious litigations from three different locations (Puducherry, Sriperumbudur, Coimbatore) were filed against THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM with the same fabricated accusations of IPC295A "hurting of religious sentiments" from multiple third-parties. Dr. S Chandran (Sri Nithya Sarvananda), founder of the Namakkal ASMT Temple and Hospital was threatened by the police with malicious prosecution under section IPC295A, fearing which he filed an anticipatory bail petition in Madras High Court which was rejected. Finally, he, like many other regional heads, had to shut down his temple to avoid persecution by the government.

• 101. 2 March 2010, Sirkazhi, around 8:30 PM the in charge of Sadanandapuram ASMT Temple, Kannan saw the news of all ASMT temples being vandalized and set ablaze. The news even mentioned that Sirkazhi Temple had been set on fire. This was the very place where he was watching this news. He went outside and confirmed that everything was normal. He moved his children to a neighbor's house for safety. The news had spread rumors that THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM could be around Sirkazhi. Later that night, on 3 March, by 1:30 AM, a group of four militants came and attacked the temple. They tore and set ablaze the billboards and banners of ASMT Hindu Deities which were hung outside and even broke the compound wall boundary of the temple. The police refused to register any complaint.
• 102. 3rd March 2010 the Eambalam Pondicherry monastery was ransacked and vandalized the in presence of the police which was shown on television. The devotees and monks were beaten. The police refused to register any formal complaint. 4th March 2010, around 6 PM THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM came to the Eambalam monastery. The militants received this information and attacked again, at 8:30 PM. The Sabha (meditation and worship hall), a thatched roof structure where THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM was staying, was set on fire. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM managed to escape.
• 103. Some ASMT Temples were based in houses of devotees, even these were set on fire. On 4 March 2010, Rasipuram, an old-aged female devotee's thatched house was set on fire by DMK militants. The old lady was locked inside and fainted in the smoke. She was rescued by her neighbors. The Police refused to register any complaint.
• 104. 3rd March 2010, Thovalai, Kanyakumari ASMT Hindu Deities were broken with hammers, this was aired live and reported in newspapers.
• 105. In several cities and towns, the militants burnt ASMT Hindu Deities and gave inflammatory speeches demanding the assassination of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and attacks on his followers. Such demonstrations in Kanchipuram, Thanjavur, Kumbakonam, and Hosur were reported in the media.
• 106. The attacks mentioned so far are only the ones that happened during the first week from 3 March 2010 and speak of the attacks that took place in Tamil Nadu. The atrocities done on THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and the ASMT community is far more than what was just mentioned. Over the years, several fabricated accusations made against THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and the community were proven false. In some cases, the courts also termed litigations targeting THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM as 'abuse of process of court', 'done with mala fide intention'. These court verdicts that were in favor of THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and the ASMT community did not remedy the damage and prevent further persecution. The State government departments such as the HR&CE and police and state proxy militants continued their attacks. The hate propaganda politically owned media normalized the society and even judges such that there continues to be widespread prejudice against THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM and the ASMT community even today.