Day by day the Sathya Sai Central Trust mystery is deepening with more scandalous activities coming into light pertaining to the Prashanthi Nilayam precincts. So far three persons have been detained and produced in the court on the charges of hauling huge amounts of cash allegedly from the Yajurveda Mandiram stash in connivance with some of the trust members.

Police on Monday produced senior Trust member V Srinivasan's car driver Chandra Sekhar alias Sekhar, who was detained from a KSRTC bus on Sunday, and engineer Sohan Shetty before the additional judicial first class magistrate court in Hindupur. Magistrate Kamalakar Reddy ordered judicial remand for the duo till June 23. Another suspect and site engineer of Baba's Maha samadhi, Harish Nanda Shetty, was sent to judicial custody till June 27. The court, however, postponed hearing on the bail plea of the three suspects to Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust went on the defensive on Monday after the Anantapur district police asserted that they had evidence to prove that the cash seized from three persons on Saturday belonged to the Trust. The three arrested have been sent to judicial remand.
Pooh-poohing the claims of Trust member R J Rathnakar that the seized cash of Rs 35 lakh belonged to 12 Baba devotees, the police asserted that it has clinching proof to link the money trail to the Trust. The police did not rule out the possibility of questioning trust members like Ratnakar and Srinivasan.