The family of the 16-year-old girl, who accused self-styled Godman Asaram Bapu of raping her, has deserted their home in Shahjahenpur fearing threat to their lives from the supporters of the controversial Guru.
One of the relatives of the victim had apprised the media persons that the family is scared and took a hide fearing an attack from the supporters of Asaram Bapu. When some media persons reached the residence of the teenager at Azeezganj locality of Shahjahenpur, they were surprised to found a lock on Friday morning. Their neighbours and one of the kin who was living in the same locality confirmed that the family is apprehending attack on them any time hence they locked the house and left for some unknown destination to save their lives from followers of Asaram Bapu.
The victim happens to be the daughter of a transporter, who gave away his land for the ashram at Chandapur locality. Also, the girl's father was a sincere follower of Asaram Bapu. The disciples of Asaram, however, rebuffed the rape charges against their Guru, saying it is a mere conspiracy to defame him. Delhi Police have recently filed a case against the self- proclaimed Godman on the complaint of a 16-year-old girl that he had sexually assaulted her in a Jodhpur Ashram recently. The teenage girl along with her parents went to
Kamla Market police station in New Delhi on Tuesday and gave a written complaint against the 74-year-old spiritual guru of sexually assaulting her. 'After sexual assault was confirmed in the medical examination of the girl, a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Kamla Market police station.
As the incident took place in Rajasthan, we have moved the case to Jodhpur,' a police official had confirmed. Asaram had invited sharp criticism a few months ago after he suggested that the Delhi gang rape victim was equally responsible for the crime and said the girl could have called her assailants brothers and begged them to stop. Asaram and his son were also being investigated in the mysterious deaths of two boys, whose decomposed bodies were found from the banks of Sabarmati River near his ashram in 2008.