Indian guru charged with rape over teen sexual assault

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Jaipur: Indian police on Wednesday charged a well known profound guide with assaulting a 16-year-old schoolgirl at a religious retreat, legal advisors said. Asaram Bapu, one of numerous so called Hindu "godmen" who draw in tremendous amounts of supporters, was busy for some offences, incorporating assault, trafficking and sexual criminal acts against minors. Bapu, 72, who in his preachings urges supporters to carry on
with a "devout life" free of sexual cravings, was captured in September in focal Madhya Pradesh state and traveled to Jodhpur, in Rajasthan in western India, where the charged strike occurred. The police chargesheet is more than 1,000 pages in length and incorporates articulations from 58 witnesses, indictment legal counselor Manish Vyas said. The white-whiskery master, who once denounced Valentine's Day as swaying adolescent individuals to take part in "messy acts", has rejected the cases against him as a political scheme. The asserted assault occurred on August 15 as Bapu was holding a retreat for supporters, incorporating the affirmed victimized person and her guardians. He advised the folks he would have been wise to meet their little girl alone in the wake of being educated of concerns she was controlled by detestability spirits, police have said. When alone in his room, the master purportedly attacked the young lady, who let her know folks two days after the fact. The family then headed out to New Delhi to defy him — however the master declined to reach them, arousing them to head off to police. The master triggered open shock in January when he guaranteed that a 23-year-old Indian learner could have abstained from being lethally group assaulted on a New Delhi transport by asking for benevolence from her ambushers and calling them "siblings". Bapu has in the range of 350 ashrams or religious withdraws in the nation and abroad, where he instructs yoga and reflection and offers lessons on heading an otherworldly and serene presence, consistent with his site. Contentions in the court case will start November 16 lawyers said.