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Swami Nithyananda denies sexual abuse allegations

After a long period of silence, the controversial swami now says he is being blackmailed and framed by 'powerful people.'

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Ending his long silence, self-styled godman Nityananda, facing charges of sexually abusing devotees, today refuted the allegations as baseless and a "blackmailing tactic by powerful people" to extort money from him.
   
"Had no physical relationship with anyone. Not drunk a
drop of alcohol nor smoked nor had non-vegetarian food all my
life," the controversial swami told reporters in Bangalore.
   
He claimed powerful people had used a "misrepresented
video" to blackmail him, "about which I have no evidence".
   
"I am being threatened and blackmailed by powerful
people politically. They demanded at least Rs 100 crore from
me, then reduced the price to Rs 60 crore. Different amounts
were demanded at different times," he said.
   
Nityananda whose alleged sex romps were aired by a
private regional TV channel with an actress claimed "the whole
video is manipulated and morphed. I categorically deny that it
is me who is there (in the clipping)".
   
The denial by Nityananda, against whom charges of rape
and criminal intimidation have been brought up by the police, came days after actress Ranjitha made a similar statement.
   
Nityananda went missing after the alleged scandal
involving him broke out and was arrested from Solan district
in Himachal Pradesh on April 21 last year.
     
"I will give the whole story and all details to the
court," he said.
   
Turning his ire on the CID wing which is investigating
allegations of rape against him, Nityananda said, "I have
revealed all this to Corps of Detectives. They have not done
anything. Nothing happened. They just sympathised with me
and told me to just relax."

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