An Indian advocate in South Africa called Mayakisten “Mike” Govindasamy has had his wife play "the Brahma Kumari card" in a court case.
He is accused to indecently assaulting a 15 year old female relative he and his wife had invited into their bed. The victim alleges the abuse took place after the wife got up and went out for her 4am meditation.
Seemingly "BK Mike" was not that much of a BK to follow Shrimat and get up for Amrit Vela, a detail I suspect the court was not made aware of. Brahma Kumaris ... "a Hindu organisation providing education in spiritual and moral values"? Where is the BKWSU voice in all this? Does it accept the claims of these individuals that they are "BKs" and being used in their defence?
The abuse is alleged to have happened first in 2007 and repeated or carried on until 2010 when he "raped her using his finger while she slept on a mattress in his bedroom".
Surprise, surprise ... the "BKs" have gone out out of their way to accuse the victim of being mentally unstable, the typical first response of BKs to critics or accusers. In this case, BK Mike - a senior counsel at the Durban Bar - went even further to hire a private detective to try and dig up dirt on the now young woman, and used the opportunity of tendering evidence to attack the complainant’s character before the case had started.
The young woman accused Mike of pinning her down and telling her to keep quiet during one of the alleged incidents in 2010, indecently assaulted her in 2007, when she was 16, and raping her in 2010 for 40 minutes, when she was 19. In her testimony, the woman described how she awoke to find Govindasamy lying on top of her.
Govindasamy's defence made a case against her character based on a Facebook account the teenager made where she fantasised being "older, British and studying for a Master’s in Law degree" after the alleged incidents, to get away from the problems in her life.
What do we make of these reports from an ex-BK point of view?
Firstly, Mike is apparently not a BK, or at least not a very committed (pukka) one. His wife seemingly is. I would guess he is/was not but was dragged along by her to public events. As a former judge, he is just the kind of "IP" (important person) the BKs would want to court for future benefits.
On the other hand, it is absolutely part of BKism, where one married partner is a BK and the other partner not and not interested in following celibacy, that the BK would allow or encourage them to take their "lust" elsewhere. This may explain why, the indecent assaulting allegedly occurred while the teenager - who own mother had died - slept between Govindasamy and his wife.
Was the wife using her as a barrier or distraction and welcoming her into their bed as a precursor for what was about to come?
Govindasamy’s wife, Sylvia, and her daughter, Janashree, met the victim's Father at a Wimpy restaurant in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in an effort to quash the charges saying, “everybody makes mistakes ... Whatever damages you have incurred, we would make good”.
Bribery or a pay off ... another typical repsonse in the tawdry BK world as we have seen in the recent male rape case in Shantivan (there were four attempts to have the charges dropped). So too is character assault ... he attempted to introduce heresay evidence that the complainant had a personality disorder “which has the effect of regular – since childhood – deceit” however it was refused by the judge.
Mike claimed that that she had laid “false charges” against him because he had threatened to expose her “lascivious and unbecoming conduct” as a “tequila girl” in a Cape Town nightclub where patrons to put money into her bikini pants and “boobs”. The "BK" even interfering with state witnesses out of desperation.
On the other hand, he admitted that he had shared a “close” relationship with the complainant when she was younger, and that she was clingy and attention demanding and that on the night before the alleged rape, she was "holding on to him" and demanding his attention.
If that is all true ... what on earth were two "BKs" doing inviting her into their bed? Something does not add up.
The lawyer for the prosecution accused, "“You previously fondled her when she was younger and got away with it, and so you tried your luck a second time. ... Govindasamy was “the big man” in his family, who commanded a lot of respect, he had taken advantage of his young relative and forced himself on her, as he knew that she would never be believed by his family."
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A question to anyone who has read this far ...
We have uncovered and documented a constant litany of such cases - some much more severe, involving suicide and murder - going right back to the beginning of the BKWSU's history and involving the cult's founder himself. Indeed, there is an uncanny similarity between Lekhraj Kirpalani and Om Radhe and BK Mike and his young girl ... both being attractive, precocious teenagers, both having lost a parent just prior etc. It does not require a psychiatrist to imagine the effects of that at such an age.
Obviously, the BK inner circle knows about all these cases and many, many more. Up until the internet, they have managed to keep them hidden and suppressed and controlled both internally and externally.
How can they live, knowing that all this garbage goes on time and time again and keeping a lid on it, still believe in their religion?
I dare say the BKs will get their "guilt" donation once it all blows over ...
Follow the case, here.
He is accused to indecently assaulting a 15 year old female relative he and his wife had invited into their bed. The victim alleges the abuse took place after the wife got up and went out for her 4am meditation.
Seemingly "BK Mike" was not that much of a BK to follow Shrimat and get up for Amrit Vela, a detail I suspect the court was not made aware of. Brahma Kumaris ... "a Hindu organisation providing education in spiritual and moral values"? Where is the BKWSU voice in all this? Does it accept the claims of these individuals that they are "BKs" and being used in their defence?
Govindasamy said his wife was a member of the Brahma Kumaris, which is a Hindu organisation providing education in spiritual and moral values.
“You are not obliged to take a vow of celibacy, it is dependent on your spiritual development and is a voluntary thing. My wife and I decided a few years before the alleged incident that we would abstain from sexual relations. We were both in the same spiritual frame of mind,” Govindasamy said.
The abuse is alleged to have happened first in 2007 and repeated or carried on until 2010 when he "raped her using his finger while she slept on a mattress in his bedroom".
Surprise, surprise ... the "BKs" have gone out out of their way to accuse the victim of being mentally unstable, the typical first response of BKs to critics or accusers. In this case, BK Mike - a senior counsel at the Durban Bar - went even further to hire a private detective to try and dig up dirt on the now young woman, and used the opportunity of tendering evidence to attack the complainant’s character before the case had started.
The young woman accused Mike of pinning her down and telling her to keep quiet during one of the alleged incidents in 2010, indecently assaulted her in 2007, when she was 16, and raping her in 2010 for 40 minutes, when she was 19. In her testimony, the woman described how she awoke to find Govindasamy lying on top of her.
Govindasamy's defence made a case against her character based on a Facebook account the teenager made where she fantasised being "older, British and studying for a Master’s in Law degree" after the alleged incidents, to get away from the problems in her life.
What do we make of these reports from an ex-BK point of view?
Firstly, Mike is apparently not a BK, or at least not a very committed (pukka) one. His wife seemingly is. I would guess he is/was not but was dragged along by her to public events. As a former judge, he is just the kind of "IP" (important person) the BKs would want to court for future benefits.
On the other hand, it is absolutely part of BKism, where one married partner is a BK and the other partner not and not interested in following celibacy, that the BK would allow or encourage them to take their "lust" elsewhere. This may explain why, the indecent assaulting allegedly occurred while the teenager - who own mother had died - slept between Govindasamy and his wife.
Was the wife using her as a barrier or distraction and welcoming her into their bed as a precursor for what was about to come?
Govindasamy’s wife, Sylvia, and her daughter, Janashree, met the victim's Father at a Wimpy restaurant in Rondebosch, Cape Town, in an effort to quash the charges saying, “everybody makes mistakes ... Whatever damages you have incurred, we would make good”.
Bribery or a pay off ... another typical repsonse in the tawdry BK world as we have seen in the recent male rape case in Shantivan (there were four attempts to have the charges dropped). So too is character assault ... he attempted to introduce heresay evidence that the complainant had a personality disorder “which has the effect of regular – since childhood – deceit” however it was refused by the judge.
Mike claimed that that she had laid “false charges” against him because he had threatened to expose her “lascivious and unbecoming conduct” as a “tequila girl” in a Cape Town nightclub where patrons to put money into her bikini pants and “boobs”. The "BK" even interfering with state witnesses out of desperation.
On the other hand, he admitted that he had shared a “close” relationship with the complainant when she was younger, and that she was clingy and attention demanding and that on the night before the alleged rape, she was "holding on to him" and demanding his attention.
“She insisted that I acknowledge her as a beautiful girl and also mentioned to all her other aunts and uncles that were present that she loved me the most.”
If that is all true ... what on earth were two "BKs" doing inviting her into their bed? Something does not add up.
The lawyer for the prosecution accused, "“You previously fondled her when she was younger and got away with it, and so you tried your luck a second time. ... Govindasamy was “the big man” in his family, who commanded a lot of respect, he had taken advantage of his young relative and forced himself on her, as he knew that she would never be believed by his family."
--
A question to anyone who has read this far ...
We have uncovered and documented a constant litany of such cases - some much more severe, involving suicide and murder - going right back to the beginning of the BKWSU's history and involving the cult's founder himself. Indeed, there is an uncanny similarity between Lekhraj Kirpalani and Om Radhe and BK Mike and his young girl ... both being attractive, precocious teenagers, both having lost a parent just prior etc. It does not require a psychiatrist to imagine the effects of that at such an age.
Obviously, the BK inner circle knows about all these cases and many, many more. Up until the internet, they have managed to keep them hidden and suppressed and controlled both internally and externally.
How can they live, knowing that all this garbage goes on time and time again and keeping a lid on it, still believe in their religion?
I dare say the BKs will get their "guilt" donation once it all blows over ...
Rape accused ‘was celibate’, says wife - 10 Sep 2014
The wife of senior advocate Mike Govindasamy took the stand yesterday in her husband’s trial on rape and indecent assault charges.
Muniamna Govindasamy explained to the Pietermaritzburg High Court why the victim, then a teenager, had been in bed with her and her husband the night of the alleged sexual assault. She said the teen was not feeling well.
“On that night, the girl had a headache. She was feeling lonely. She had no one to talk to. I wanted her to be comfortable at home. She grew up with me and I find nothing wrong in letting her sleep with us,” said Muniamna. She added her children were always allowed in their parents’ bed when they were ill, and Govindasamy did not have a problem with them sharing a bed with their relative.
Muniamna said she is a member of the Brahma Kumaris, a Hindu organisation providing education in spiritual and moral values. “We took a vow of celibacy as a couple. We were both in the same spiritual frame of mind and he could not break spiritual laws,” she said. The sexual assault is alleged to have happened while all three were in bed.
Muniamna said the girl was beautiful but had showed “too much of flesh” at her husband’s birthday party earlier that evening. “I was taken aback by her behaviour. “She told Mike that he was her favourite relative while holding on to him during the party,” said Muniamna. She admitted visiting the teen’s Father, a relative, in Cape Town, but denied asking him to drop the charges against her husband. “I visited the [relative] to talk about family problems. We needed to unite because this case was breaking the family,” said Muniamna.
The defence closed its case after her testimony and the case was adjourned to December 8 in the Durban High Court.
Follow the case, here.
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