Meanwhile the trustees preferred an appeal in
C.M.A. No. 35/2005 against the interim order dated 10.06.2005 at Appellate
Authority Pondicherry. Trustees’ Appeal was dismissed on 30.01.2007 and the
Trial Court Order dated 10.06.2005 was upheld since the balance of convenience
was in our favor.
The trustees then preferred a revision at the Madras
High Court in C.R.P. No.3314/2007 challenging the dismissal of their appeal on
30.01.2007. Justice K. Venkataraman was the presiding judge who openly sided
with the trustees. In fact he repeatedly told our lawyer that the girls should
be taught a lesson of how life is lived outside the Ashram!
Trial Court order dated 10.06.2005 and Appellate
Court order dated 30.01.2007 did not suffer from any legal infirmity and were
based on principles of natural justice as well as balance of convenience.In spite of no question of law being raised by the trustees, much less a legal infirmity, Justice
K. Venkataraman, under the guise of showing concern for us by stating that when
trial commences the girls will be further harassed and in order to safeguard the
girls’ interests it would be better if they changed residence, passed order on
29.01.2008 directing us to reside in some other accommodation other than in
Ambabhikshu House.
This was not the relief sought for by the trustees
in their C.R.P. No.3314/2007 and definitely not by us. But since we were
helpless we complied with Justice K. Venkataraman’s malafide order dated 29.01.2008.
‘Golconde Guest House’ is a guest house maintained by the Ashram for visitors
and some inmates.We requested to be accommodated at ‘Golconde
Guest House’ till the trial was over. As far as food was concerned the question did not arise and Ashram Dining Room could continue as before. We
also asked for a reasonable sum of Rs.100/- per day to be paid to each one of
us to meet the expenses of our daily needs and necessities since our ‘Prosperity’
had been stopped.
