Gauri Das

1. 1995Reported allegationIn May 1995, 16 Vrindavan gurukula alumni wrote to the GBC Executive Committee and the International Office of Education alleging that he beat three students with a stick in April 1995 and regularly used the stick as punishment.→
2. 1995AdmittedLimited to the stick. According to a joint directive of the GBC Executive Committee and the ISKCON International Office of Education (undated, late 1995 or early 1996), he "openly admitted" using a stick on three students, each struck twice, and had used a stick "about 5 or 6 times in the last 5 years" on his own decision, against school policy. The directive found that "improper corporal punishment was applied" but that the incidents "were clearly not cases of beating students"; he had been reprimanded and told not to use the stick again.→
3. 2008ISKCON findingICOCP Official Decision after the case was reopened in 2006: "Gauri das is found to be responsible for inappropriate and excessive corporeal punishment, a behavior contrary to ISKCON policy and Vaisnava behavior." Panel of three arbitrators.

The CPO barred him for three years from any leadership position in ISKCON temples or projects ("temple officer, department head, Director, etc.") and from giving class or leading kirtan, these restrictions to end after three years if he wrote a letter of apology to the former students "clearly stating his actions and expressing remorse" and paid USD 3,000 to a project benefiting children. As a lifetime restriction he may not have "service directly overseeing children in an ISKCON temple or project, such as managing or teaching in an ISKCON school". He stepped down as temple president of Bhaktivedanta Manor on 13 July 2008 and continued to serve at the temple; the Borehamwood Times later reported that the Manor said his part-time work there was in line with the ruling because he was not serving as an officer or leader.