2014
- June 30 Victim reveals ordeal to her husband, a math official
- July 5 Family elders and math leaders call on the pontiff, who says he will go to the Himalayas after end of Chaturmasya
- August 17 FIR registered in Honnavar against the victim’s husband for allegedly blackmailing disciples; victim made an accomplice
- August 26 The couple is arrested; the victim’s daughter lodges an FIR about sexual abuse of her mother by the pontiff
- August 31 While the couple is in jail, the victim’s ‘harassed’ brother-in-law commits ‘suicide’
- September 8 Pontiff files writ petition in Karnataka High Court to quash rape charges. HC stays arrest.
- October 9 HC dismisses pontiff’s petition. He is granted bail by Additional City Civil and Sessions judge, Bangalore.
- October 20 Pontiff secures stay order on medical tests questioning constitutional validity of the tests
- October 22 Victim receives a threat letter and after 10 days a known strongman, ‘Kali Yogesh’, calls her
- November 20 CID confirms to HC that semen traces were found on the victim’s clothes
- November 28 HC division bench presided over by CJ begins hearing appeal to quash the FIR after a single-judge bench dismisses the pontiff’s petition
- December 3 HC rules that the pontiff must undergo medical tests
- December 5 Swami appears for 13 out of 16 tests
- December 12 Advocate General informs HC that DNA collected from victim’s clothes matches pontiff’s
2015
- February 9 HC dismisses the pontiff’s plea against probing the rape charges
- September 26 Police files a chargesheet against the pontiff for “repeatedly raping” a woman over whom he was in a “position of authority, trust and a teacher”, and “for inducing a person to believe that he will be rendered an object of divine displeasure”.
