Nithyananda Gets Bail: Swammi Nithyananda, arrested in an assault case, was today granted bail by a Ramanagara court. Judicial First Class Magistrate Komala granted the bail. Nithyananda was sent to one-day police custody yesterday after he surrendered before the court in Ramanagara. He had later filed a bail petition.

The self-styled godman, already facing criminal charges including rape and out on bail after his arrest in 2010, courted fresh trouble when police on June 8 booked him and his followers for allegedly assaulting a mediaperson during a press conference at his ashram at Bidadi near here.