Godman Chandraswami whose named figured in Rajiv killing case dies
Godman
Chandraswami
has
passed
away.
He
was
66.
Chandraswami
was
on
dialysis.
Recently
he
suffered
a
stroke
followed
by
severe
sepsis
and
developed
Multi-Organ
failure.
Chandraswami
-born
in
1948
whose
real
name
was
Nemi
Chand
was
a
controversial
Indian
tantrik.
He
was
called
a
godman
by
some
people.
His
father
came
from
Behror
in
Rajasthan
and
worked
as
a
money
lender.
His name had cropped up the the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case too. In his arguments before the Jain commission probing the conspiracy behind Rajiv's killing, AICC counsel R.N. Mittal had in 1997 alleged that Chandraswami through his wide international links and involvement in major arms and financial deals arranged the funds which the LTTE needed badly.
Mittal further told the one-man panel that the self-styled godman had every reason to play a crucial role in the conspiracy as he was arrested during Rajiv Gandhi's regime and he was refused permission to go abroad.
Chandraswami has also been accused of various financial irregularities. He was ordered by the Supreme Court to pay a penalty in several Foreign Exchange Management Act violation cases registered by the enforcement directorate.
Who is Chandraswami?
Chandraswami was born as Nemi Chand in 1948. Chandraswami moved to Hyderabad as a child with his father who hailed from Behror in Rajasthan. A practitioner of Tantra, Chandraswami left home to become a student of Upadhyar Amar Muni and the tantrik pandit Gopinath Kaviraj.
He is known to have lived in the jungles of Bihar meditating. He claimed to have obtained extraordinary powers called siddhis after four years of penance.
A Jain by religion, Chandraswami was a believer in the goddess Kali. Was was on the board of World religious leaders for Elijah Interfaith Institute.
Chandraswami was said to have been the spiritual advisor to former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao. Chandraswami built an ashram known as Vishwa Dharmayatan Sanathan in Delhi's Qutub Institutional Area after Rao became the Prime Minister.
Chandraswami is said to have dispensed spiritual advice to the Sultan of Brunei, Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain, actress Elizabeth Taylor, British PM Margaret Thatcher, arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, crime Lord Dawood Ibrahim and 'Tiny' Rowland.
He faced charges of financial irregularities repeatedly. In 1996 he was arrested on charges of defrauding a London-based businessman of $100,000.
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