In a very interesting TV debate on Aug 26,2013 Asaram, the self proclaimed ‘sant’ and godman was named as a fraudman. In the wake of a serious sexual charge against him, the abusive epithet appears quite befitting.
A girl of 16 years of Shahjanpur, Up along with her family was a blind follower of Asaram. For the family, he was a real godman. Her father, running a transport company there is financially well off. He got admitted his two sons and one daughter in the Chhindwara (Chhatisgarh) located school of Asaram after donating a huge amount. Over and above, he was paying Rs 3 lakh annually towards the school fee and hostel charge. When the daughter complained of some lingering physical ailment, the father talked to the godman, who advised him to send the girl to the Jodhpur ashram in Rajasthan. When the minor girl reached there, she was taken to a dark room where Asaram was waiting, who bolted the door and forcefully raped her. He threatened to kill her parents if she revealed anything.
When she opened up before the father, both came to Delhi and she lodged her written complaint with the local SHO, Kamla Nagar. The police got her statement recorded before a magistrate and got her medically examined which confirmed encroachment upon her virginity. Then the police registered a zero number FIR under different sections of IPC including 376 (rape) and forwarded it to Jodhpur where the crime had taken place. The sections were sufficient to arrest him straightway. Instead the Jodhpur police issued him a notice to appear on or before Aug 30 before the police. The media is exposing the politics being played by the Congress and BJP to soft-pedal the case as Asaram’s followers constitute a good vote bank. Despite the huge and prolonged protest activities all over the country on the 16/12 incident, none appears to have learnt a lesson. Shame! shame!! and shame !!!
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