U.S. Group Denies Media Report On Missing Pandits

Chicago: A U.S. non-profit organisation has denied a media report which claimed that of the 1,050 young Indians brought to the Maharishi Vedic City in Iowa, 163 have gone missing in the last year.

The Global Country of World Peace (GCWP) runs under its home organization Maharishi Ved Vigyan Vishwa Vidyapeetham, a non-profit group established in India in 1983.

Chicago-based weekly newspaper Hi India, in its recent edition, said that of the 1,050 young Indians brought to the Maharishi Vedic City and the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, 163 - some of them just 19 years old - went missing in the last one year, a press release said.

The GCWP said that since its inception in 2006, approximately 2,500 pandits have come under its sponsorship and only five percent of them have left the US without notifying the authorities.

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been given information concerning Vedic pandits leaving their Iowa campus," it said.

"The Hi India report was replete with falsehood and ignored several pages of information provided them. It should not be relied upon in any form. It is defamatory and very injurious to the reputation of GCWP and the Indian organisations," the GCWP said in a press release.

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