Aravindan Balakrishnan
Birth date
January 1, 1940
Place of birth
Kerala, India
Profession
Acting
Age
86 years
Biography
Aravindan Balakrishnan, known to his followers as "Comrade Bala", was born in Kerala, India but migrated to Singapore, Malaya, where his father was a soldier. Balakrishnan ran the cult, called the Workers' Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, from a London HQ. On 21 November 2013 Metropolitan Police from the Human Trafficking Unit arrested two suspects at a residential address in Lambeth, South London. A 73-year-old ethnic Indian Singaporean man, Aravindan Balakrishnan, and a 67-year-old Tanzanian woman, his wife, Chanda Pattni, had been investigated for slavery and domestic servitude.