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===Detroit incident===
<div id="Pat Halley beating" ></div>On 8 August 1973, while Rawat was at the Detroit City Hall to receive a testimonial resolution praising his work, Pat Halley, who was at the time a reporter from Detroit's underground periodical ''[[Fifth Estate (periodical)|Fifth Estate]]'', slapped him in the face with a shaving cream pie.<ref>"Guru Gets Testimonial And Some Pie in Face", "New York Times", 8 August 1973 Page 43</ref><ref>"15-Year Old Guru Slapped in Face by Shaving Cream Pie", UPI, ''Los Angeles Times'', 8 August 1973; pg. 2</ref> Rawat responded by saying that he did not want his attacker arrested or hurt, but the reporter was attacked by two men a few days later and seriously injured.<ref>A-6 Independent (AM) Press-Telegram (PM) Long Beach, Calif., Wed., 8 August 1973</ref><ref>Melton (1992), p. 222</ref> When local members heard of the incident they notified Rawat in Los Angeles who extended his regrets and condolences to Pat Halley's family, and requested that the DLM conduct a full investigation. The assailants, one of them an Indian, were identified. They admitted their part in the incident and offered to turn themselves in. The Chicago police were immediately notified.<ref>Page 2 – Section B – Sun News – Las Cruces, New Mexico – Wednesday, 22 August 1973</ref> The Detroit police declined to initiate extradition proceedings, variously claiming that they were unable to locate the assailants, or that the cost of extraditing them from Chicago to Detroit made it impractical. The arrest warrant remained outstanding.<ref>I See The Light, by Ken Kelley, Penthouse (July 1974), page 98-100, 137-138, 146, 148, & 150-151.</ref> This lack of action by the Detroit police was attributed by some to Halley's radical politics. A spokesman later stated that the Indian national had been "shipped off to Europe".<ref>"Get Your Red-Hot Panaceas!", Ken Kelley, ''New York Times'', 19 January 1974</ref>