Ex-caretaker of Asaram's ashram booked for conspiracy

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Press Trust of India Jammu
Last Updated : Oct 18 2013 | 7:16 PM IST
Acting on a court directive, police have booked a former caretaker of Asaram's ashram here, for allegedly "conspiring to implicate" the tainted self-styled godman by claiming that three children were buried inside the premises.
Bhola Nath, a resident of Jaipur in Rajasthan, was booked yesterday, police said.
The police had started a probe into the Nath's allegations after a court's directions four days ago.
According to the police, during the course of the trial they picked up a youth, Vikrant Sharma.
Sharma told police that Bhola had asked him to arrange skeletons of three children and get them buried inside the premises.
Sharma produced a CD of the phone call before the court, which, after reviewing it, directed police to register a case against the former caretaker of the ashram.
Earlier, a compliant was filed before the court by a one Raj Kumar here that three children were murdered and buried inside Asaram's Bhagwati Nagar ashram.
Kumar had approached the court after hearing the statement given by Bhola on a TV channel.
The court had then directed the police to register a case and start investigations into the complaint.
Now, a police team is being deputed to arrest Bhola and bring him to Jammu for investigations, they added.
The controversial self-styled godman is already in jail along with some of his associates in the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl at his Jodhpur ashram.
Earlier in 2008, two minor boys were found dead under mysterious circumstances near Asaram's Ahmedabad ashram.
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First Published: Oct 18 2013 | 7:16 PM IST

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