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Police report against ‘Datuk Seri Guruji’ A director of a Tamil daily claims that 'Datuk Seri Guruji', a spiritual guru, bought a fake parapsychology degree from the US.

PETALING JAYA: K Saraswathy, the director of Tamil Malar, a vernacular daily, lodged a police report against a meditation center owner alleging that the latter had bought a fake doctorate degree in parapsychology from University of Mississippi, United States.

In the report lodged on April 14 at the Sentul district police station, the 45 year old lawyer claimed that V Balakrishnan or better known as ‘Datuk Seri Guruji’ the co-founder of Rajayoga Power Transcendental Meditation Center Sdn Bhd (RPT) had also misused the government’s official emblem and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s name for his private programme.

“On Apr 12, when I was in my office at Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, I received a pamphlet containing details of RPT programmes. And I was shocked where RPT used the government’s emblem and prime minister’s name to gain publicity,” said Saraswathy.

“The government Acts clearly state that using government’s emblem and nation’s premier’s name without approval is an offence, thus police action must be taken against RPT and the organising committee of the programme,” she added.

Balakrishnan is said to be a master teaching his followers on how to harness spiritual energy (yoga shakti) for material and spiritual benefits.

However, he had come under heavy criticism in the social media for charging an exorbitant fee for his programmes.

Saraswathy said that her daily had written several articles against Balakrishnan before and due to that his followers created trouble at the daily’s office in December last year.

She further challenged Balakrishnan to come out in the open to clear the air over his fake doctorate degree.

“We want police to investigate Balakrishnan and his meditation center for cheating the public by giving false information which will tarnish the government reputation,” she said.