» The Facts about the Criminal Case against Swami Premananda

“... My whole life changed and I became a victim - not of Swami Premananda, but of the police and those whom they influenced...

They tortured us and beat us severely with their hands and with sticks to make us say Swamiji molested us. ... Their sole motive was to force us to say that Swamiji raped us and did other awful things to us. They pressured us into signing blank papers and they wrote on them what they liked. Some girls were so badly beaten that they fainted...”

“... When I say that the accused has not fathered this foetus, what I mean to say is that there is not even a chance, or even an infinitesimal chance of him being the father.

...Someone is trying to set-up Swami Premananda. The DNA case is a fabrication from start to finish. This deception throws a terrible shadow over validity of DNA fingerprinting if now there are scientists who are prepared to misuse it to find the innocent guilty.”

“... the judge was not interested in the truth and not at all in what I had to say... The witness for Swamiji are not fools, nor partial witnesses, nor are they 'wishful thinkers' as stated by the Honourable Judge ...We are intelligent, logical and caring human beings who would not be prepared to support a murderer and a rapist in a mass conspiracy to set him free...”

» Human Rights violations in India - findings by Amnesty International

“... Torturing suspects has become part of the police’s daily routine throughout India, where hundreds, if not thousands of people have died from beatings in recent years and women are regularly raped in jail cells. The torture and deaths continue because police know there’s hardly any chance of the long arm of the law touching them – even if they kill the victim and the truth is revealed...”

» Is this Justice? testimony by Renée and Xavier Van Bambeke

“Having come to testify at the Court of Pudukkottai, Renée and Xavier van Bambeke relate their experience as defence witnesses before the court...”

» Interview with Mr. Wigneswaran concerning the recent judgement

Recorded on September 1st 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka

» Our Men in Black by Ram Jethmalani

“Ram Jethmalani says it is time for a frank appraisal of the system. We publish this argument not out of disrespect for the judiciary but in a spirit of honest, democratic debate.”