Nithyananda Gopika Video

Unfortunately for him, Swami Nithyananda is in the wrong kind of news again. After a first (22-minute) video showing allegedly him and Tamil actress Ranjitha having sex, and a second (9-minute) video showing the divorced ex-actress offering him an oil massage, the latest is a video that shows the godman with Ranjitha's secretary Gopika.

Reports say that the new Nithyananda-Gopika video has allegedly been released by Tamil weekly Nakkeeran, which has been reporting aggressively on the issue since the time that it first broke out on Sun TV on March 2.

Nityananda, who was first untraceable, came out in a few days in an interview to a private TV channel to state that while it was indeed him in the oil massage video, he had done nothing illegal, since that was just Ranjitha tending to him when he was sick. He said that the videos were a conspiracy to defame him, and that his followers were investigating the issue. The Swami named Premananda (alias Lenin Karupan), an inmate of his ashram, as the person who morphed his picture to defame him.

Actress Ranjitha, who initially kept mum on the issue, eventually said that she did offer massages to the Swami and feed him, and used to stay with him till late hours, something all inmates of the ashram knew.

The break-out of the video led to widespread outrage among the Swami's followers, who attacked his ashrams all over South India.