There was a court order to serve on him. John was a long term resident of the Byron Bay area where all the premies (not that there are that many of them) know everything about everybody else and someone knew where he'd gone chasing a lady love.

Well, I know who that "lady love' is and given the entire situation, all facts taken into consideration over so many decades, and taken as a whole, what Prem Rawat and his pack of goons did to both was horrendous, inexcusable, and unforgivable.  That they even knew who the "lady love" was makes this such an extraordinary segment out the cult playbook of "search and destroy your enemies."  I bet Rawat thought it was just perfect.  But, the fact is that it's hateful and perverse behavior.  In that regard, he's no different than Jim Jones or Ron Hubbard.  Very, very similar, indeed.  Scarily similar.