The National Human Rights Commission has directed the Odisha Government to pay compensation of Rs 2.7 lakh to a victim Rosaline Mallick, who was humiliated by fake godman Sarathi Baba of the Sarathi Ashram in Kendrapada district.
The NHRC issued the direction taking cognisance of a petition filed by civil society organisation Human Rights Watch secretary Sangita Swain on August 6, 2015 that police are inactive on a FIR filed regarding rape of a Dalit girl Rosaline by Sarathi Baba which is violation of human rights, due to inaction of police.
It might be mentioned here that Sarathi has stayed at a luxurious hotel in Hyderabad in August 2015. later, Roasaline went missing following which an FIR was lodged by the National Dalit Mahasangh in Capital police station. In the complaint it was alleged that as the girl belonged to a poor
family Sarathi lured here by promising her a job and financial and took her to Hyderabad.
He also allegedly raped the girl and fled from the hotel when the news spread. Then the Mahasangh secretary had demanded police to trace the girl within three days and arrest Sarathi pother wise the organisation would resort to an agitation.