| Date | Description |
| 29 Apr 2010 | Letter To Ms. Ambika Soni, Minister of Information and Broadcasting mentioning about indecent representation and attack on her dignity done by SunTV, Udaya TV, Suvarna, E-TV, Kasthuri, Andhra Jyoti, Star Vijay, CNN-IBN, Aaj Tak, News9, TV9 (Telugu). TV9 (Kannada), Tv5 news, ABN, also mentioning about High Court Order. |
| 18 May 2010 | Nakkeeran Tamil weekly magazine, 18 May 18 2010, Vol. 23 No.8, Cover page and the inner page has pictures of Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Falsely claiming that Ms. Ranjitha made the statement that she was cheated by Paramahamsa Nithyananda. The article was mocking Paramahamsa Nithyananda for being in jail (which itself was illegal). The main content of the article had no relation with the Paramahamsa Nithyananda or Ms. Ranjitha, but their photos are captioned and used for mockery and defamation as already described. |
| 30 Dec 2010 | In District Civil Court of Ramanagara, PCR-183/2010, Ms. Ranjitha made a private direct complaint against Lenin, Aarthi Rao, and Advocate Sridhar, how it destroyed Ms. Ranjitha public image, dignity as a woman, career as an actress, and completely shattered social life.Complaint to Ramanagara Civil Court PCR-183/2010 CC-599/2010. |
| 08 Jan 2011 | The Nakkeeran Magazine ( 08-01-2011 edition) made highly defamatory cooked up stories alleging physical relationship between Paramahamsa Nithyananda and 15 woman disciples and claimed all this information they received from the DGP of Karnataka CID. The magazine went to the extremes of presstitution with their highly defamatory stories against Paramahamsa Nithyananda and attacking the diginity of Ma Ranjitha in worst possible ways. |
| 29 Jan 2011 | Cognizance taken by C.J. & JMFC Ramanagar against private Complaint to District Civil Court of Ramanagara PCR 183/2010 by Ranjitha. |
| 01 Mar 2011 | In Writ Petition 8619/2011 filed in Bangalore Civil Court, 39 entities were made respondents. (1) STATE OF KARNATAKA. (2) THE DG&IG POLICE KARNATAKA (3) MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING. (4) NEWS BROADCASTING STANDARDS AUTHORITY. (5) PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA (6) NAKKHEERAN (7) CINEMA EXPRESS. (8) AAJ TAK TV (9) JAIN TV. (10) SAHARA FILMY LTD. NEWS (11) SAHARA ONE CORPORATION NEWS DOWNLINK (12) TV SOUTH ASIA BROADCAST WORLDWIDE LTD. (13) CNBC AWAAZ (14) ZEE TV SE ASIA (15) CNN-IBN (16) TIMES NOW (17) NTV TELUGU. (18) INDIA NEWS. (19) EENADU. (20) TV 9. (21) THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (22) DINAKARAN. (23) DELHI TRIBUNE (24) THE NEW INDIA EXPRESS (25) DECCAN HERALD. (26) THE TIMES OF INDIA. (27) DECCAN CHRONICLE. (28) BANGALORE MIRROR. (29) DNA ENGLISH DAILY. (30) THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS (31) HOSADIGANTHA (32) UDAYAVANI. (33) KANNADA PREBHA. (34) VAARTHA BHARATHI. (35) PRAJAVANI. (36) SAMYUKTA KARNATAKA (37) SANJEVANI (38) EE-SANJE. (39) VIJAYA KARNATAKA. The petition was to (a) Restrain the respondents from telecasting morphed video which results in attack on the diginity of Ma Ranjitha, protection of fundamental and statutory right of Ma Ranjitha, and not to deprive her of dignity, reputation and privacy. (b) Blocking all the clippings which provide for viewing of the scandalous video. Stop using all/any images, statements, reference, news paper clippings, articles amongst others where the scandal clippings of the alleged image of petitioner has been used, uttered and/or referred. Intrim order, and disposal. |
| 25 May 2011 | Legal notice for defamation and breach of privacy, 42 Issues from 11-3-2010 to 05-08-2010 in Tamil Bi-Weekly Magazine, Kumudam Reporter |
| 04 Jun 2011 | PCR 183/2010, District Civil Court of Ramanagara, Judge was of the opinion that there is a prima-facie materials to register case against the accused (Aarthi Rao, Lenin and Advocate Sridhar) for 354, 506, 384, 509 of IPC, and ordered registration of Criminal Case against the same. |
| 12 Jul 2011 | Complaint against Sun, Nakkheeran, Dinakaran, Lenin |
| 15 Jul 2011 | Scientific Research on Brain Activity during Kundalini Awakening in the presence of Paramahamsa Nithyananda on the auspicious Guru Purnima day |
| 17 Jul 2011 | News channels misrepresent the 15-July-2011 research experiment of kundalini awakening of hundreds of people including ma Ranjitha in a highly defamatory and derogatory way. TV9 Kannada, TV9 Telugu, NTV Telugu, Aak Tak, ETV2, Sakshi TV, Suvarna News, Start News – A complaint with Commissioner of Police, Bangalore is registered regarding offences under Sec 295A of IPC |
| 02 Aug 2011 | In District Civil Court of Ramanagara, PCR-183/2010, Accused No. 1 (Lenin) in his application said that since he is not keeping well, he would be unable to attend the court hearing of that day, requested his appearance to be exempted. Counsel for Ma Ranjitha filed his objections denying the averments of application inter alia submitted that, application filed by accused No. 1 is premature and same not maintainable as [accused No.l has not appeared before this court today though summons served on him.A non-bailable warrant was issued against karuppan in case filed by Ranjitha |
| 30 Aug 2011 | Notice to Nakkeeran to appear in Madras high court for defamation of Ma Ranjitha and Paramahamsa Nithyananda, WP 20200 of 2011 |
| 16 Sep 2011 | Karnataka high court on Sep 16 refused to extend the stay on further court proceedings against Lenin Karuppan in the case filed by Ms. Ranjitha. |
| 05 Nov 2011 | Sun TV COO Hansraj Saxena denied anticipatory bail in Ma Ranjitha’s complaint in Chennai |
| 11 Nov 2011 | Of the 9 conspirators charged in criminal harassment and extortion case for blackmailing Swamiji, several are fleeing to avoid arrest. Second non-bailable warrant issued against Lenin Karrupan. |
| 30 Nov 2011 | Court ordered Kumuddam Reporter to respond to court in the matter of defamation filed against them by Ma Ranjitha. PCR-21959/2011 |
| 14 Dec 2011 | Newspaper Dinakaran and Tamil Musaru get summoned to appear before Bangalore Civil Court for their defamatory articles. |
| 03 Feb 2012 | In the matter of, defamatory coverage of Scientific Research on Brain Activity during Kundalini Awakening done on 15-07-2011, sends an mail replying to the Police, “In reponse to 29-12-2011 I wish to know who are those scientists who are saying it is not scientific. As per news channel Suvarna.” |
| 13 Feb 2012 | In the matter of restraining 39 respondents from publishing and use of the morphed footage, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting stated that the ministry has advised TV channels as also the News Broadcasting Standards Authority to ensure strict compliance with the court order and submits that further action will be taken by the Ministry in the light of judicial determination done by the Court. |
| 14 Mar 2012 | Lenin Karuppan, key accused in the March 2010 conspiracy against Paramahamsa Nithyananda, Was denied bail by the Principal Sessions Judge, Chennai in the extortion and blackmail case filed against him. |
| 21 Mar 2012 | In matter of restraing order against WP-8619/2011, self regulatory body, Broadcast Content Complaints Council (BCCC), directed the channel ‘Star Vijay’ to apologise to put a scrolling apology in bold font for 7 days on TV apologizing Ranjitha Menon for telecast of its programme which violated the order. |
| 02 Apr 2012 | Bangalore City Civil Court passed an interim injunction order against 9 Bangalore Television news channels including TV9, Survarna 24×7, Kasthuri, Udaya, Janashri, Public TV, E TV, Samaya 24×7 and News 9 restraining them from exhibiting, broadcasting or telecasting of programmes, reports, clippings or visuals referring to Nithyananda in a false or derogatory manner. |
| 02 May 2012 | The judge at Press Council on India openly admonished 5 national newspapers DECCAN HERALD, THE TIMES OF INDIA, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, THE MID-DAY and DAILY NEWS & ANALYSIS (DNA) for their false, malicious and defamatory reports, publishing abusive news about Paramahamsa Nithyananda without performing the basic duty of first consulting him and ascertaining his version of the events. |
| 18 Dec 2012 | Former SunTV COO Hansraj Saxena confesses live on television how SunTV and CEO Kalanidhi Maran created the morphed video of Paramahamsa Nithyananda and Ma Ranjitha, for the purpose of extortion. |
| 23 Sep 2013 | National channel Aaj Tak and Telugu channel TV10 tender public apology to Paramahamsa Nithyananda for airing defamatory news item |
| 10 Dec 2017 | In a huge legal and moral victory for Swami Nithyananda, On December 8, 2017, the Kannada news television channel Samaya TV, chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj and Kalavathi Bharadwaj were found guilty of defamation and civil conspiracy by USA Court. The USA Court fined Samaya TV, chief reporter Ranganath Bharadwaj and Kalavathi Bharadwaj with a $5 Million judgement for broadcasting false news about H.H. Paramahamsa Nithyananda and his USA mission. The fabricated “news” coverage was contempt of Court and an attempt to spread lies. |