Aurobindo Ashram case: SC rejects woman's plea for being made

The Supreme Court today refused to allow a woman, who claimed to be a victim of sexual assault, to be a party in a pending case regarding alleged sexual harassment of some inmates at Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry.

"We cannot allow you to intervene in the pending case at this stage," a bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud said.

The former inmate had moved the court seeking its nod to be made a party and alleged that the girls and women were being sexually assaulted in recent times as well.

The court is hearing the petition filed by another former inmate, who has sought a judicial probe into the ashram's affairs.

The row dates back to around one-and-a-half decades when a female member and four of her sisters were expelled from the ashram for violation of rules following which they levelled the allegations.

They challenged their expulsion upto the apex court, which in 2014 ruled that they be evicted.

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