On the above referenced link, Basava Premanand said, " I have the records of more than a hundred persons destroyed by the Satya Sai Baba gang beginning with one Mr. Venkatamuni of Madres who was done away at Madurai in an air conditioned room and then after getting death certificates from doctors taken to Madras by Satya Sai Baba in his own car and cremated without giving any information to the police and thus hushing up the matter. Afterwards the doctors who gave the death certificates also succumbed to death. In these deaths the mode of operation is in five ways: 1. Death by car accidents; 2. Death by Heart failure; 3. Death by poisoning; 4. Death by hanging; 5. Death by drowning."

Premanand alleged that after SSB had a Mr. Venkatamuni "done away" with (in an air conditioned room in Madurai) SSB managed to get Madurai doctors to issue a death certificate for Mr. Venkatamuni. After obtaining the death certificate, SSB had Mr. Venkatamuni's corpse transported from Madurai to Madras (444 km / 276 miles), where, upon the corpse's arrival, SSB put Mr. Venkatamuni's corpse in his (SSB's) own car, and transported the corpse to a crematorium, where Mr. Venkatamuni was cremated so that the police would not investigate it! Then, somehow after getting the Madurai doctors to issue a fake death certificate, SSB also had the doctors killed as well!

Basava Premanand does not divulge, for some mysterious reason: 1) Mr. Venkatamuni's full name; 2) the death certificate obtained in Madurai; 3) the doctor(s) name(s) who issued the death certificate; 4) the time of the alleged assassination; 5) the date of the alleged assassination; 6) the circumstances of the alleged assassination; 7) the name of the hotel/building where the alleged assassination took place; 8) witness names at the hotel/building where the alleged assassination took place; 9) police reports about the death at the hotel/building; 10) hospital records; 11) the paperwork for transporting a corpse from Madurai to Madras; 12) witness names who saw SSB put Mr. Venkatamuni's corpse in his car; 13) the date SSB allegedly put Mr. Venkatamuni's corpse in his car; 14) the name of the crematorium; 15) the place of the crematorium; 16) crematorium paperwork; 17) the reason why SSB allegedly had Mr. Venkatumi killed to begin with; 18) why the person who allegedly witnessed these things did not report it to the police; 19) the time of the doctors deaths; 20) the date of the doctors deaths; 21) the circumstances of the doctors deaths; 22) the names of the doctors; 23) the death certificates of the doctors; 24) witnesses regarding the doctors' deaths; 25) the names of the new doctors who covered up the deceased doctors deaths (opening another round of questions); or 26) any sort of circumstantial evidence! But we must believe Basava Premanand because he is a "rationalist and amateur magician" who has no formal education and who repeatedly exposed himself to toxic mercury while trying to create aluminum oxide ash-vibuthi (which can cause psychological disturbances, as mercury is a poison)!

Basava Premanand also has a newspaper clipping fetish, and clips newspaper articles and uses them as proof, evidence and factual information against SSB! Premanand completely discards newspaper reporters (material witnesses) who uncover "evidence", in place of newspaper clippings! Oh, that sounds like a rational thing to do! Click Here to view my article about Basava Premanand and his unsound investigation into the 1993 murders.

Update: August 19th 2005: Click Here to view screen captures to SaiPetition.net, Robert Priddy's Ex-Office Bearers Page and the BBC text to the Secret Swami Documentary. Basava Premanand personally made a submission to SaiPetition.net (which was subsequently replicated on Robert Priddy's Ex-Office Bearers Page) stating that he was a follower of Sri Sathya Sai Baba from 1968 to 1974 and was the "best worker in the SSB Org., Podanur". However, in the Secret Swami Documentary, Basava Premanand claimed that he was never a follower and had been trying to investigate SSB since 1968 itself. To further this argument, Click Here to read an article that was published in the The Independent, on December 24th 2000, where it was claimed that Premanand had "spent nearly 50 years touring Indian villages, drawing crowds of people by demonstrating how "miracles" are performed". When this article was written, Premanand was 71 (he was born in 1930). Consequently, Premanand had been exposing gurus since the age of 21 or 22. This means that in 1968 (at the age of 38, or 16 years after he was a rationalist) Premanand was not a follower of SSB. Why did Premanand lie?