reasons for this are still unknown.
With Yogananda‗s death, a key associate who
had provided critical help to Ramdev in his early days
was gone. The murder remains unsolved till date. Ten
months later, on 25 October 2005, investigating officer
B.B. Juyal filed his final report in the case - Case
unsolved. Perpetrators unknown."
(b) At Page 105 to 114, Chapter 16 Mystery 2 :
The Guru‟s Disappearance (Entire Chapter 16).
"A year after Ramdev had a successful run in the
United Kingdom and delivered a speech at the United
Nations in New York came plans for a yoga tour of the
United States. India's foremost yoga guru was
scheduled to start his tour in New York on 30 June
2007 and wind it up in Coventry in the UK on 8
August, rumbling through New Jersey, Chicago,
Glasgow and London in between.
Animesh Goenka, then president of Heritage
India, a small charitable organization that was
involved with the planning of Ramdev's tour, had told
the media that the US leg of the tour, estimated to cost
$350,000, was to be funded exclusively through
charitable donations from private individuals and
corporations. The sale of tickets to the yoga camps,
priced between $100 and $500, was expected to raise
half a million dollars. This money, Goenka had
asserted, would be funnelled into research on amla and
developing a product for which a patent could he
sought.
While Ramdev prepared for his international
tour, Balkrishna was making certain critical and farreaching changes. On 18 May 2007, fifteen months
after its formation, Patanjali Ayurveda Pvt. Ltd
dropped the word 'private' from its name. This was a
critical move if the company wanted to list itself on the
stock market. Patanjali's shareholding also changed
around this time, as would happen frequently over the
years, with several of Ramdev's key associates coming
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