AHMEDABAD: The personnel of Ahmedabad rural police investigating the Nithyananda ashram case cannot understand the fluent English spoken by the two arrested yoginis, said a police official.The yoginis, Harini Chellappan alias Maa Nithya Pranpriya Nanda, 30, and Riddhi Ravikiran alias Maa Nithya Priyatattva Nanda, 24, were arrested on November 20 in connection with the alleged illegal confinement of two children of a Tamil Nadu man. The yoginis are the administrators of Nithyananda’s ashram in Hirapur in Daskroi taluka of Ahmedabad.Police have the yoginis’ remand for five days and have begun interrogating them. But the progress in the case has been blocked by the language barrier.On Sunday, four police officials including a woman cop continued to interrogate the yoginis. But more the yoginis spoke, the more the cops became confused.A police official probing the case said that the yoginis can speak only English, a language that the interrogators can’t understand. “The yoginis are perhaps using the language barrier to their advantage,” said the official.The official in charge of the Vivekanandnagar police station, sub-inspector R B Rana who was present during the interrogation, was seen taking breaks from the interrogation because he found it difficult to understand the yoginis.At one point, a videographer was brought in, but he was soon sent away because the cops wanted to maintain the secrecy of the interrogation.Police officials said that the yoginis had allegedly forced children at the ashram into hard labour and to get alms or donations. Children who did not perform the tasks to the yoginis’ satisfaction were allegedly beaten and locked up in the ashram or in the house at Pushpak City in Vivekanandnagar.Read this story in Bengali