At 'Call
For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai
Baba', see the article:
Posted by
Barry
Pittard on June 17, 2011
NEWS FLASH
Note: I shall
analyse Indian media reports just to hand, and write
further, tomorrow. Barry Pittard
From India, one of
our correspondents writes:
“Sai Baba’s official
residence ‘Yajur mandiram’, built at a cost of around Rs
35-40 crores ( $9-10 millions) in 2006, was opened
yesterday by the SSB trust members after having been
kept locked for the past 2 months. At 10 AM
Thursday morning, the key was brought from the State
bank of India by the bank manager and the residence
opened. My sources tell me (confirmed by some newspaper
reports too) that a staggering amount of hard cash was
discovered, in several currencies. It was so much that
bank officials decided in 2 hrs to bring in many
currency counting machines. At least 15-20 students were
pressed into service to count the cash alone and it took
them many hours to complete the job. Unofficial reports
say that the cash alone would be in the range of several
millions of dollars".