After he started his anti Black Money Campaign, Baba Ramdev is being targeted by various Agencies following his Vast Yoga Empire. This all started after he started his fast against UPA Government’s Reluctance to bring Black Money in May last year. Â In the words of Arvind Kejriwal, a whole team of Income Tax Officials was deputed to discover ways to nab Baba Ramdev. Below is the collection of news from past one year which is Self Explanatory to suggest how Government Machinery is being used against Anti-Graft Campaigners.
July 23 , 2011
CBI grips hand over Acharya Balkrishna, who is the representative of Baba Ramdev in all his trusts. CBI has registered a case against him in the fake degree matter. CBI says the degree, which he had used to obtain a passport, was fake. A Look Out Circular (LOC) has also been issued against Balkrishna so that he does not escape from the country.
The central agencies, including Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax department, have also started probing foreign funds received by trusts associated with Ramdev and Balkrishna, including Patanjali Yogpeeth and Bharat Swabhiman Trust.
July 19, 2012
Days ahead of his proposed agitation against black money in Delhi, yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s convoy was on Thursday attacked in Bhopal.
According to reports, the yoga teacher’s car was targeted by a group of men, believed to be Congress workers, who pelted stones and raised slogans against him.
July 23, 2012
The CBI has registered a case of cheating and criminal conspiracy against Balkrishna on July 23 last year for allegedly procuring fake degree and violating Section 12 of Indian Passport Act by furnishing fake and forged High School and graduation certificates to the passport authorities for obtaining the document.
August 26, 2012
The Enforcement Directorate will soon question Ramdev’s close aide Balkrishna in connection with a money laundering case registered against him even as yet another enterprise of the yoga guru has come under the scanner of the agency.
The probe against Ramdev’s trusts had begun last year.
The agency had registered the money laundering case against Balkrishna acting on the CBI FIR which had charged him with violations of the Passport Act.
The ED, which enforces the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), suspects that Balkrishna, who has been looking after various trusts run by Ramdev, could have parked the alleged laundered money abroad using the forged passport as claimed by CBI.
Balkrishna is now out on bail after he was arrested by CBI for allegedly submitting fake documents for obtaining Indian passport.