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Two Asaram Bapu child-shishyas dead

The bodies of the two boys, Dipesh Vaghela (11) and Abhishek Vaghela (10) who went missing from Asaram Gurukul on Thursday, were fished out of the Sabarmati river on Saturday evening.

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The pre-teens were missing since Thursday from an Ahmedabad-based ashram

AHMEDABAD: The bodies of the two boys, Dipesh Vaghela (11) and Abhishek Vaghela (10) who went missing from Asaram Gurukul on Thursday, were fished out of the Sabarmati river on Saturday evening. The recovery of the decomposed bodies of the two boys has shocked the city. More than 200 children live at the ashram.

The bodies were sent to a civil hospital for a postmortem examination, which was performed around noon on Sunday.

“The postmortem report indicates the two children died due to drowning,” police inspector of Sabarmati police station, KB Jhala, told DNA. Parents of the two deceased boys, however, disagree with the postmortem reports and have demanded a CBI inquiry into the case.

“They are hiding the truth. My son was killed by someone from the ashram who used ‘black magic’,” said Prafful Vaghela, Dipesh’s father. “The bodies of the two boys had several injury marks at different places. Dipesh’s head had been shaved off. He was completely bald before being killed,” said Prafful Vaghela.

Shantilal Vaghela, Abhishek’s father, said, “Someone from the ashram may have persuaded the boys to venture out of the ashram.”

Ashram authorities, on the other hand, are saying that the boys had gone missing from the ashram around 9pm on Thursday. “We have been looking for them. When some of their friends told us that the two boys were very keen to see the Rath Yatra, we searched for them in the Yatra, too,” Uday Sanghani, the media in-charge of Asaram Gurukul, told DNA. He denied that black magic of any sort was practiced at the Gurukul. So far, the police have been behaving as mere onlookers in the incident and this has made it worse for the parents of the two boys.

Sanghani, too, is blaming the police. “They refused to register a case immediately when we reported about the two boys who went missing from the Gurukul. They told us to wait for a day,” said Sanghani.

Prafful Vaghela said that if the police had acted promptly, the two children would have been alive. 

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