Controversial godman Nithyananda is in trouble again after his devotees attacked journalists on Thursday and allegedly threatened them with dire consequences.

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The incident happened at his ashram during a news conference arranged to clarify on sexual harassment allegations levelled against him by one of his former devotees.

While Nithyananda was addressing the media, Ajith, a reporter from a news channel, asked him about summons served on him by a US court. When Nithyananda denied knowledge, the reporter took out a copy of the ‘summons’ and tried to hand it over to him.

Nithyananda then backed off asking his devotees to send the reporter out, and said that journalists could not visit his ashram with summonses. The devotees followed his order and pushed out the reporter.

Objecting to this, other journalists walked out of the conference venue. Later, the reporter filed a complaint with the Bidadi police against Nithyananda and his followers for assault and criminal intimidation. “They threatened to kill me, besides hurling abuses,” the reporter said in his complaint.