The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police is interrogating him about the allegation made by the woman against him and his son.
Self-styled godman Ashu Maharaj, who has been booked for rape, has been detained by the Delhi police on Thursday. An ATS team of the Shahdara district police detained him from the Ghaziabad area.
The Crime Branch of the Delhi Police is interrogating him about the allegation made by the woman against him and his son.
A woman had alleged that Ashu Maharaj had raped her and her minor daughter at his Hauz Khas ashram in Delhi.
The woman claimed she was raped by Ashu Maharaj and his son several times between 2008 and 2013. She alleged that he even asked her to bring her minor daughter to him and then raped her.
The woman told the police that in 2013 she had gone to wish him Diwali at the Rohini Ashram when he along with his associate sexually assaulted her. Ashu's manager Ravi Shankar gave her water laced with sedatives following which she lost consciousness. When she woke up she told the accused that she would narrate her ordeal to everyone but the accused told her that he would eliminate her entire family. "He kept on threatening me and exploited me. Not just him his friends as well. In 2016, on one occasion his son Samar and his friend Saurabh who are builders by profession also assaulted me. I had informed the same to guruji and he responded by saying 'If I am eating (referring to the woman) my son will also eat,'" said the woman in her complaint.
The woman further told the police that in 2017 his son Samar asked her to bring her daughter as well. She had also complained about it to guruji who instead told her that she has been their slave and so will the daughter be. On one occasion he even thrashed her and asked her to get her daughter along. "He called me to the Hauz Khas Ashram and I went there along with my daughter. He moved his hands on my daughter's cheeks, lips and felt her. I also went to speak to him later but he threw me out of the Ashram and left in the car," added the woman in her complaint.
The woman told the police that she knew the guruji since 2008 when her daughter (6) had stomach ache issues. The accused man in front of the mother would remove her daughter's clothes and massage her which even gave a relief to her daughter.
The police have registered a case under section 376 D (gang-rape), 354 ( sexual harassment), 506 (criminal intimidation) and POCSO act.
Case Study
- The victim claimed she was raped by godman Ashu Maharaj and his son several times between 2008 and 2013
- She alleged that he asked her to bring her daughter to him
- The woman followed the same after which he raped the minor too
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