Viha magazine Nov/Dec 2013 | Page 9

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“ 1 India L i t i g a t i o n Update
Risk seems to be attracting short-term Visitors from
the Middle East. One w o m a n from Dubai has just
flown in for the weekend Celebration Camp, while
another came from Doha in Qatar for an eight-day
stay.

RUHII HOUSE

Many of the people who come here are
Scandinavians, but just recently three people were

heard speaking fluent French together in the dining
r o o m , while a loud discussion in Italian was hap‑
pening in the kitchen. The official language for this
international center is English, much to the relief of
those of us who find the strange sounds of Danish
impossible to learn. Sudas, by the way, has the dis‑
tinction of being the only Irishman who teaches
Danish to immigrants wanting to become residents in
Denmark. He retires from the job n e x t year after 20
years of public teaching.
During the endless days of summer it’s light when
you go to bed and light when you wake up, but
now the days are shrinking as a u t u m n approaches.
As they say on HBO’s addictive TV series Game of
Thrones . , W i m e r is coming!"
Never mind. There are no White Walkers here, and
Risk continues to offer a full program of workshops,
retreats, and trainings throughout the year. And if
the darkness gets mo much, one can always hop on

a Finnair flight to Mumbai and take a break on the
beaches of Goa.
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In June 2013 petitioners in Pune filed a
n e w w r i t petition with the Bombay High
C o u r t of India to place the property of Osho
International Foundation (OIF, the Indian
trust) and Neo Sannyas Foundation (NSF) in
receivership, removing the c u r r e n t trustees,
and force the r e t u r n of millions of dollars that
have been transferred to private ownership.
These are the same petitioners who success‑
fully stopped the gift of property from these
trusts to Darshan Trust (alleged, to be in N e w
Delhi whose trustees are long-time Resort resi‑
dents).

This writ petition alleges that in a property
trade arrangement for the building of the new
meditation hall and guest house, millions of
dollars in t r u s t property ended up in the hands
of Osho Multimedia and Resorts Pvt. Ltd.
(OMR), a for-profit company whose board of
directors is made up of Mukesh, Vidya, and
Devendra. These three people are sharehold‑
ers, along with three others, so they personally
receive the company profits. They are also the
only three trustees for NSF and operate both
the trust and the for-profit company o u t of the
same office in Mumbai. The writ alleges that
under this arrangement they could freely mis‑
use funds and transfer them to their for-profit
company.

Evidence produced with the writ shows that
credit card purchases made in the Resort
bookstore and for stays in the guest house go
directly to O M R and n o t to the trusts
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The Wm also alleges that trusmes 0f 01F 501d
an apartment to the Wlfe 0f the how.” 0f the
Resort m a i n t e n a n c e contract at a rldiculously
low rate, at the same time taking o u t loans at
high rates and jeopardizing the financial sta~
bility of the trust.
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These petitioners have taken one posmon that
is ControverSial' They Claim that NSF (Currently
controlled by Mukesh, Vidya, and Devendra)
owns the copyrights to Osho’s work. This is a
position that has been strongly opposed by the
opponents of OIF, Zurich, for a variety of legal
reasons.

The f u l l t e x t of the writ petition is available at
www.05howork.org.