Coimbatore, Aug 16 (PTI) A National Commission for Women(NCW) team today visited the Isha Yoga Centre here to confirmthe veracity of letters sent to it by two women sanyasinsstating that they were staying in the centre on their ownvolition and not forcibly as alleged by their parents. NCW member Sushma Sahu met Mathi and Maayu and recordedtheir version about the contents of the letters, Isha sourcessaid. Sahu left the city for Delhi in the afternoon, police said. The two women had written to the commission stating thatthey were staying there on their own volition and nobody hadforced them, Isha sources claimed. The mother of the women, who were known as Geetha and Lathabefore taking sanyas, had moved a habes corpus petition in theMadras High Court alleging that her daughters had been brainwashed and forced to stay at the yoga centre. However, local principal district judge and superintendentof police who went to the Centre and recorded the statementsof the two women last week on the directions of the high courtinformed the court that they were staying on their volition.PTI NVM VSRGMVV
NCW member visits Isha yoga centre
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