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On August 20, 2013, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan,
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I.P.S. Ajay Lamba, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police,
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was in his cabin.
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It was lunchtime, when his personal assistant told him that
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a Star News reporter from Delhi was waiting for him on the phone.
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Ajay Lamba picked up the phone and the reporter told him something
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that shocked him.
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"Good evening, sir."
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"I want to talk about the F.I.R. filed in Jodhpur for Asaram Bapu."
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"Yes, tell me."
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"The F.I.R. alleges that
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Asaram Bapu sexually assaulted a minor girl."
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Ajay Lamba knows how big and powerful Asaram Bapu is.
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Many politicians bow their heads in front of him.
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But he has no idea that an F.I.R. has filed against him for a r*pe case.
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He tells the reporter that he doesn't know anything about it.
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He hangs up.
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Then he checks his phone and sees a missed call.
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Whose missed call?
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Central Delhi's DCP.
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Ajay Lamba calls the DCP and the DCP confirms the shocking news.
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A few hours ago,
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a 16-year-old girl reported that
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on the night of 15 August 2013, Asaram Bapu sexually assaulted her.
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A man with millions of followers
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and politicians bowing their heads in front of him,
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how can he do such a despicable thing?
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Let's learn the crazy story of Asaram Bapu.
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Near the Sindh River, in the Berani village,
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which is currently located in Pakistan,
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in April 1941, a boy is born.
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Asumal Sirumalani.
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This rich family is of Baniya caste in the Sindhi community.
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Asumal's mother has been teaching her son about religion since childhood.
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She makes him sit in front of Lord Krishna
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and tells him, son, you have to worship the lord
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and if you do it right, he will give you his blessings.
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Asumal obeys all her words.
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Every morning, he gets up early and worships Thakurji.
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Six years later, the lives of millions of people,
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including this family, are about to be changed.
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Due to the partition,
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Asumal's family has to leave their property in Pakistan
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and move to Ahmedabad, India.
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This family, which was very rich in Pakistan,
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is now living a poor life in Ahmedabad.
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After some time,
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Asumal's father starts a wood business and then spices.
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As a result, the financial situation of the family improves.
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At the age of 7,
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Asumal goes to Jai Hind School in Ahmedabad for his primary education.
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His official biography states that his memory is so sharp
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that he can recite any poem, song, or lesson exactly to the teacher.
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As soon as Asumal reaches the 3rd grade,
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another tragedy happens in the family.
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At the age of 10, Asumal's father dies.
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After his father's death,
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Asumal has to leave school to support his family.
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There are two versions of this story.
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The first version states that Asumal goes to Ajmer
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and he drives a cart from the railway station to the Dargah of Ajmer Sharif.
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The second version of his biography states that Asumal
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works in his relative's shop in Gujarat's Siddhapur.
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And because of his hard work and dedication,
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he earns his employer's trust.
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Despite working in the shop, he is very committed to religion.
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Because of this commitment,
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many people come to him for his blessings.
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As he grows older, his family starts planning his wedding.
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But Asumal says that he wants to follow the path of a saint
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and doesn't want to marry.
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He runs away from his home 8 days before his wedding.
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His family searches for him everywhere.
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And eventually, they find him in an ashram in Bharuch, Gujarat.
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The entire family begs him that his engagement has been fixed.
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If they cancel it, what would happen to their respect?
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At least think about us.
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Asumal agrees to marry Lakshmi Devi.
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Many events that take place in the next few years
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are not mentioned in Asaram Bapu's biography
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They are mentioned in this book.
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Asumal has a small job.
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In 1959, a murder case was filed against Asumal.
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But because there is no evidence against him,
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nothing happens in this case.
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But you won't find all these things in his biography.
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The biography says that Asumal only focuses on one thing, spirituality.
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Despite his marriage, Asumal wants to become an ascetic.
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On 23rd February 1964,
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23-year-old Asumal leaves his home and leaves his wife behind.
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He wanders from one place to another and eventually reaches Kedarnath,
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where many sages teach and bless him.
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Then he goes to Vrindavan, and after Vrindavan, to Nainital.
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There, he meets Leelashahji Maharaj,
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who is a renowned saint in our country.
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Maharaj takes in Asumal as his disciple
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and shows him the path of spirituality.
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Maharaj tells Asumal to go home and meditate.
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So Asumal returns to Ahmedabad
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and at the banks of the Narmada river,
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there is a small village called Moti Koral.
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From there, he begins his meditation.
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His biography says that he experiences mystical happenings here.
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For 40 days, he meditates so much that
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he goes deeper into the mystical path.
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A few days later, his mother and wife come to take him home.
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Asumal agrees to go home
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and boards a train to Ahmedabad with his mother and wife.
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But as soon as the train starts moving,
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he jumps out of the train
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and lands on another train, which is headed in the opposite direction to Mumbai.
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75 km away from Mumbai, he goes to Prajeshwari Mandir
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where his guru, Leelashahji Maharaj, meditates.
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He meditates here and attains Self-Realization.
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After this Maharajji changes his name to
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Sant Sri Asaramji Maharaj.
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Asaram finally decides to go to his mother in Ahmedabad.
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But Basant Rawat, a journalist in Ahmedabad,
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says that Asaram left the temple
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because Leelashahji threw him out of his ashram.
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There are two versions of this story.
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But we do know that on 8th July 1971,
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Asaram reaches Ahmedabad.
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And there, he builds a Moksha Kutir in a small hut
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where he teaches the people around him as well as Ayurvedic medicine.
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From here, Asaram sets up his base
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and teaches people about religion.
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So Asaram's mission,
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which was set up in a small hut in Ahmedabad's Motera area,
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continues to grow.
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There are three reasons for this.
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First, Asaram's ashram gives free food and other facilities
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to people who come to listen to his teachings.
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Also, Asaram doesn't discriminate against his followers based on caste and community.
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That's why he becomes especially popular among the backward people of Gujarat.
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And lastly,
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Achyut Yagnik, a social scientist in Ahmedabad, says that
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at this time, the middle-class of Gujarat was awakening to religion.
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At the time, the Bharatiya Janata Party was becoming popular in Gujarat.
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Along with them, the RSS is talking about a unified Hindu identity.
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Along with this, the Ram Janmbhoomi movement is also growing.
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And all these things benefit Asaram Bapu.
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Over the next few years,
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Asaram Bapu opens at least 400 ashrams in India and outside India.
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His popularity is so high
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that politicians of every party want his blessings.
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Many of these ashrams have a gurukul where children attend school.
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The Gujarat government also supports Asaram's empire.
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During the Congress rule, in 1981 and 1992,
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the government gave him 14,000 sqm of land.
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In 1993, Asaram Bapu represented India at the Parliament of World Religions.
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Asaram Bapu now thinks that he is the king of the world.
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He's got fame, money
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and the country's biggest politicians are also bowing their heads to him.
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Then something shocking happens.
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In 1997, a 20-year-old girl filed a case of sexual assault against Asaram Bapu.
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You'll only find this news only in a local newspaper in Gujarat.
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We don't know what happened after that.
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But we do know that Asaram Bapu's hold on politicians is very strong.
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For example, to win by-election,
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Narendra Modi also attends Asaram's programs.
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But Narendra Modi is not the only politician.
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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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and Congress leader Digvijay Singh also attend Asaram's programs,
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which shows how much he holds on to power.
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But his downfall starts in 2008.
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In 2008, a 9-year-old boy
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comes to Asaram's Motera Ashram in Ahmedabad with his father.
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There, he meets a volunteer, who advices his father
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to get his son admitted to his Gurukul.
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He decides that it's a good thing.
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He doesn't just get his son admitted, but also his brother's son.
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That month, both the brothers go to meet their sons several times
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to see if everything is going well.
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On July 3, 2008, both the brothers go back to meet their sons.
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They meet and return home at 2.30 pm.
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But at 9 pm, they receive a call from Asharam's administration,
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asking if the boys have returned home.
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They say, no, the boys are not at home.
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Why are you calling?
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The Asharam's administration says, because the boys are not in the ashram.
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The boys are missing.
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The next day,
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both the brothers immediately go to the police station to file a complaint.
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As soon as they reach the police station,
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they see two Asharam officials at the police station.
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These two officials talk to the police and then come out.
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After they come out, both the brothers get permission
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to enter the police station.
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Both the brothers ask the police to file a complaint.
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But the police gets angry at them and refuses to file a complaint.
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Asaram sends a message to both the brothers, saying, cross the road,
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pick up seven bricks
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and keep them in warm water with your children's clothes.
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Then take these clothes, turn them inside out,
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and hang them in the children's room to dry.
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Asaram promises them that the children will return in 4 hours.
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Then what happens? They wait.
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But nothing happens.
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At 9 o'clock at night, both the brothers finally file a police complaint.
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The next day, Ashram gets news that
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there are two bodies in the nearby river.
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These dead bodies belong to those two boys.
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The Indian Express report says that
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there is no external injury to their bodies.
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But this book says that both the bodies are in a very bad condition.
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There are horrific details that I can't even share with you.
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Initially, the police doesn't do anything.
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But eventually, they arrest a 14-year-old boy.
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They say that the boy was fed up with the rules of the Gurukul.
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He wanted to close the Gurukul.
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That's why he committed this murder.
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The children's family refuses to accept this.
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They demand a CBI investigation.
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In August 2008,
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Chief Minister Narendra Modi creates a commission for this investigation.
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Five years later, the commission submits a report.
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The details of which are made public in 2019.
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This report doesn't blame Asaram's ashram
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and gives him a clean chit.
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But the empire of Asharam Bapu's crores gets shaken
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when IPS Lamba receives a call.
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"Good evening sir."
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"I want to talk regarding the FIR in Jodhpur about Asaram Bapu."
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"Yes, tell me."
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"The FIR alleges that Asaram Bapu sexually assaulted a minor girl."
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The DCP says that the FIR
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has been registered under several sections of the IPC.
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And there's even a POCSO Act.
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It's a law that protects children from sexual abuse.
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He says that this incident took place in a village near Jodhpur, in Manai.
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The DCP tells Ajay that since this incident took place in Jodhpur,
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the Jodhpur police will have to investigate this.
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And the victim and her family will come to you in Jodhpur.
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When Ajay Lamba reads the details of the case,
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he finds out that this incident took place in a small hut in a village,
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which is near a large farmhouse owned by Asaram Bapu.
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Ajay Lamba says that when he heard the word hut,
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he thought it was a small hut.
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Especially because Asharam Bapu has renounced the life of luxury.
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Because he's a saint.
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But when he visited the place, he found out that it's not a small hut.
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It's a two-bedroom bungalow made of expensive white marble.
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There's a large kitchen, a modern bathroom, a split AC,
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and a double bed with an expensive mattress.
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When he reaches the police station,
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the victim and her parents are present.
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And he starts recording the victim's statement.
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The 16-year-old girl says that she's from Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
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Her father has a transport business.
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And for many years, she's been a devotee of Asaram Bapu.
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Her father even took a loan to build an ashram in Asaram Bapu's name.
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The girl and her younger brother go to Asaram's gurukul to study.
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It's a residential school.
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And in August, the girl fell ill.
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So she told her hostel warden about it.
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The warden, named Shilpi, tells her to rest for now.
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There's no need to go to the doctor.
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But the next day, the girl is called to the gurukul office.
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And she's told that a spirit has entered her body.
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And only Bapu can cure her.
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Her parents are called and told to take her to Bapu immediately.
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Two days later, the three of them come to Jodhpur.
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She says that she saw Bapu there, who was having a satsang with 150 people.
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As soon as the satsang ends, he call the three of them to talk to him.
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He looks into the girl's eyes and say,
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I see a demon inside you.
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And I'm going to get rid of this demon.
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Asaram Bapu tells the three of them to go and rest.
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He'll call them back later.
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It's 10 o'clock at night.
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The girl and her family are called.
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Asaram Bapu asks the girl,
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what do you want to be when you grow up?
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The girl says, I want to be a CA.
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Asaram Bapu says, what will you do as a CA?
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All CA bow down to me.
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The next day at 10 o'clock,
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Bapu calls the three of them to his hut.
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He tells the parents to go to the main gate of the hut
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and chant mantras there.
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By then, I'll cure your daughter.
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Asaram Bapu is lying on the bed.
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He tells his cook to get milk for him and bring the girl to his room.
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As soon as the girl enters the room, she sees that the lights are off.
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Asaram Bapu is lying on the bed and tells the girl to sit next to him.
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The girl starts shivering.
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Seeing this, Asaram Bapu tells the girl,
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I'll chant some mantras to get rid of the evil within you.
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The girl tells the police in her statement,
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I've never been alone with a man in my life.
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But at that moment, I told myself, he's my guru, god, messiah.
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Then Asaram Bapu forces the girl to perform o**l s*x.
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What does he say?
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Go out and don't say anything to anyone.
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If you say anything,
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I'll kill your brother and your family.
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The girl then puts on her clothes and goes out of the hut
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without saying anything.
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The next day, the whole family goes home.
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But the girl doesn't have the courage to tell anyone what happened.
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But after a day or two, the girl tells her mom about it.
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Her parents are in shock.
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They say they'll go to Asaram Bapu immediately.
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But Asaram Bapu is in Delhi.
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So, will they leave Rajasthan immediately and go to Delhi?
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As soon as they reach the ashram,
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Asaram Bapu's staff doesn't let them in.
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So the whole family decides to file a police complaint.
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The police station in Kamla Market is nearby.
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They go there that night and file a complaint of r**e
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The girl is then taken for a medical examination.
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A female officer tells IPS Ajay Lamba, that she's been r**ed.
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"Delhi Police is on its way to Jodhpur now to probe charges against Asaram,
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the self-styled godman, in fact has been accused of...."
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As soon as the FIR is made public,
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Asaram Bapu's followers create a ruckus.
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On 24th August, thousands of people start a protest in Delhi's Jantar Mantar.
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Asaram Bapu's son even says that the victim is mentally unstable.
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He tells his supporters in Rajkot that she took 2.5 hours to bathe
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and 45 minutes to take a break.
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She's mentally unstable.
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To solve this problem, the girl's parents brought her to Bapu.
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But Jodhpur police ignores all this
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and starts collecting evidence against Asaram Bapu.
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Dressed in civilian clothes, they prepare different teams
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and send them to Asaram Bapu's area.
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And what they found will give you goosebumps.
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According to the investigation, even after filing an FIR,
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Asaram Bapu travels to different parts of the country,
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goes to ashrams, and meets his followers.
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IPS Arjay Lamba says that
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his actions showed that he wasn't afraid of anything.
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A team of two officers, dressed in civilian clothes,
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arrives at the Gurukul where the victim studied.
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They find out that Asaram was a sex addict.
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Every night, he'd ask for a new, mature girl.
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His ashram management team was also involved.
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The Gurukul warden was Shilpi.
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Shilpi and Prakash, Asaram's cook,
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would look for young and attractive girls for Asaram.
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The police also find out that there are many girls in Asaram's gurukul,
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who leave the gurukul just before the board exams.
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When the police try to find them and meet their families,
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they find out that the girls' families don't want to talk to them.
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In the investigation it was found that
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Asaram brainwashed the girls
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that he was God for them and chose them specially.
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Then they are told that they're sick.
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And only one person can cure them.
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Asaram Bapu.
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Many of the girls come from poor families.
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They're either paid to keep quiet or threatened.
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Because of this threat, many parents don't file a legal complaint.
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After collecting all this evidence,
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Jodhpur police send a notice to Asaram
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that he has to come to the police station for an investigation by 29th August.
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The date passes, but Asaram doesn't come to the police station.
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After that, Jodhpur police form a plan to arrest Asaram.
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This is going to be a very complex operation
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because Asaram is surrounded by thousands of followers
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who believe him to be God.
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That's why a team of 5 top officers is formed
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and sent to Indore's Ashram where Asaram resides.
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This team has 10 commandos with weapons.
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But by the time Jodhpur and Indore police reach Indore,
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Asaram disappears.
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After that, all the police teams are alerted in major cities
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but none of them find Asaram.
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On 31st August, Jodhpur police hold a press conference
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where they announce that Asaram has escaped
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and he has to be arrested.
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As soon as the press conference ends, they get a call from Bhopal airport
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saying that Asaram is at Bhopal airport.
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"Asaram's photo was taken on Friday evening at 6 pm."
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"He was seen at Bhopal airport for the second time."
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"He got out of the car and entered the airport quickly."
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Asaram tries to escape from Bhopal airport to his Ashram in Indore.
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But he doesn't know that many police officers
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wearing civilian clothes are already present at his Ashram in Indore.
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One officer sees that Asaram doesn't care at all.
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"Asaram ji, it's a very difficult time."
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"Lookout notice has been issued."
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"Summons have also been issued to Jodhpur police."
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"It's a very difficult situation."
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"There have been even bigger allegations for 4.5 years."
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"But they didn't stay put for long."
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"Do you also think that behind this, there's a political conspiracy?"
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"No, there's a political conspiracy...and many other conspiracies.
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"And I don't like to mention the names of the conspirators."
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"In my opinion, everyone should be blessed."
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Jodhpur police finally reaches the Ashram.
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And when they approach him, he says,
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Do you know who I am?
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Do you know how many of my devotees are in this country?
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Do you know how many politicians bow down to me?
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He talks to the police for hours.
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And finally Asaram says,
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I'll go to Jodhpur.
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But not now because it's too late.
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We'll go the next morning.
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Why? Because he has a plan.
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Then he looks at his daughter.
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And he thinks that nobody knows Sindhi in the police team.
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That's why he tells his son
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to gather as many followers as possible at night
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so that you can block all the exits to the Ashram.
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But this doesn't work because one officer in the police team knows Sindhi.
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So, they decide to take Asaram to Jodhpur that very night.
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Then Asaram starts shouting,
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What are you doing?
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Narayan, stop them!
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Devotees, look, they're taking your baba away!
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Stop them all!
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But the police team somehow manages to put Asaram in their car.
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But the problem doesn't end there.
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As soon as they reach the main road,
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many followers start following them.
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Then they somehow reach the airport.
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But they realize that there's no direct flight from Indore to Jodhpur.
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So they have to go from Indore to Delhi and then from Delhi to Jodhpur.
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But as soon as the team reaches Delhi from Indore
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and then takes a connecting flight from Delhi to Jodhpur,
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they realize this.
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"...in which Asaram the tainted self-styled godman has been taken to Jodhpur."
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"He is right now on the flight and whose supporters again as you see
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they are used to misbehaving with the media."
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More than 50 followers of Asaram
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has booked the same flight
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from which the police are taking him to Jodhpur.
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And as soon as the flight takes off,
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they start shouting in support of Asaram.
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An hour later, the police finally landed in Jodhpur with Asaram.
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But now the police have realized what the supporters of Asaram can do.
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So they don't take him to the police station but to a guest house.
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There, Asaram is watched by two police officers for 24 hours,
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while a separate police force is stationed outside.
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Now that he's surrounded, Asaram becomes restless.
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DCP Ajay Lamba asks him why he did this.
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Asaram says, he made a mistake.
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Then he gives the police all the information
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and whatever information he gave,
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matches all the details to the FIR that the victim had filed.
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His medical examination is conducted to prove his potency.
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To see if he can be involved in sexual activity or not.
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And it's proven.
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Then he's sent into custody.
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Even after his arrest, the police can't live in peace.
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Because they're threatened by supporters and politicians.
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Ajay Lamba says, he's been called by politicians,
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bureaucrats, and senior police officers.
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Why?
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He says, first of all, they want to know the details of the case.
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But later, they say, go easy on this case.
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The police team is also bribed.
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For example, the supporters of Asaram offer the police officer
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that they'll make him the owner of several properties and ashrams in Rajasthan,
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if he stops the investigation.
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But as soon as they hear that the police will stand their ground,
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many people who worked in Asaram's team stand up against him.
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Like Amrut Prajapati,
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an Ayurvedic doctor who worked for Asaram for 15 years.
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He says, Asaram used to take dosage of insulin
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but he never questioned why.
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But one day, when he went to Asaram for a health checkup,
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he found out why there was insulin in the bedroom.
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Insulin was being taken to build Asaram's physical stamina
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because he was so involved in sexual activity.
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Now, the Jodhpur police finally submit a 6,000-page charge sheet
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in the 2013 rape case.
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The trial starts, but Asaram's lawyers argue that
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the girl is not a minor, but an adult.
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They want to gain two things from this.
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Asaram should not be charged with POCSO charges.
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So that he's not given a life sentence.
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Once POCSO is dropped, it'll be easier for him to get bail.
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Asaram's followers go to a school run by a controversial baba,
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Chinmayanand, Asaram's supporter.
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When the victim was young, she attended this school.
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Asaram's followers want to pressure the school principal
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to issue a fake certificate.
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And that's exactly what happens.
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In February 2014,
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Asaram's lawyers use a document to prove that the girl is not a minor.
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But the court rejects this.
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Jodhpur police bring the victim's official 10th standard certificate
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to prove that she's a minor.
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The case isn't over yet.
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Asaram's followers try their best to halt the case.
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For the next two years, seven witnesses are attacked,
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three of whom die, and one disappears.
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For example, in February 2014, a videographer of Asaram
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is injured by several attackers.
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Acid is thrown at another witness.
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The police even get the news that a conspiracy was being hatched
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to plant a bomb in Jodhpur police's car.
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Just imagine!
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Despite all this, the court and the police do their job
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and deliver the verdict.
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"The self-proclaimed godman
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has been given life imprisonment by a court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur."
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On April 25, 2018, Asaram Bapu was sentenced to life imprisonment
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for ra***g a 16-year-old girl.
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Five years later, he received another life imprisonment sentence
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for another rape case.
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This shows that if the government and the law want,
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a powerful and vile man can be taught a lesson.
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Don't forget to check out my productivity show on the Seekho app.
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The first episode, which is on focus, is now live.
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The link is in the description. See you there.
