Chennai, India - Members of the Movement for Spiritual Integration in Absolute (MISA), a European cult involved in pornography, have gone absconding after the city police filed an FIR and sealed their rented premises operating at Chokalaingam Nagar, Teynampet on Friday.
The police said it had obtained a warrant to search the premises occupied by the group which has been conducting classes in the name of yoga and tantra for more than two years. "We will probably search the place on Saturday," said N Rajarajan, assistant commissioner of police, Teynampet. "We have also requested the immigration authorities to freeze their travel documents."
The police FIR names five MISA members under Sections 292 (2) of IPC (sale of obscene books). The police action followed a report in TOI exposing the MISA teachers' background, and later a complaint by the Hindu Makkal Katchi. Some of the A team of seven MISA members were in the city to conduct a special camp on tantric love' at a private club in Nungambakkam between May 28 and June 8. Operating under the name Satya Yoga, the group claimed to have more than 100 students in the city.
On Friday evening, there was none on the first floor of No. 33, Chokalingam Nagar where the group used to conduct late evening classes on tantra.' The door leading to the floor was locked. The landlady, an elderly woman, said she knew her tenants as friendly people. "They looked like decent people and I rented out the place. I never went upstairs, so I don't know what they were doing. From outside, there was nothing suspicious," she said, refusing to be named. Sahadevan, the watchman of the building said the place would remain silent through the day, with occasional visitors, but the place would turn active in the evenings, when the classes begin.
The assistant commissioner said a special team has been formed to trace the members. However, sources said the MISA teachers had been trying to spread the message that they were safe in Europe.