Rape Accused Daati Maharaj in Fresh Trouble After 600 Girls go Missing From His Ashram in Rajasthan's Alawas

Jaipur, June 17: Self-styled godman Daati Maharaj has got into a fresh trouble after about 600 girls go missing from his ashram. Reports inform that the girls have gone missing from the godman's ashram in Rajasthan's Alawas, with only 100 girls remaining there. The godman has already been accused of rape by a 25-year-old woman.

According to a report by Zee News, Daati Maharaj had claimed that there are at least 700 girls in the ashram. As per recent finding by the Police, the number of girls in the ashram fall nowhere to what the godman claims. Details by the sources informed that the police are investigation whether the girls were sent away from the ashram by the godman or if they have gone to their homes on vacation. The godman, himself has also gone missing from the ashram, and the crime branch is on lookout for him.

On Saturday, a Delhi Police team visited Daati’s Rajasthan ashram and failed to find the godman at the ashram after a woman filed a complaint of being sexually assaulted by the godman in his ashram. The Police team was also accompanied by the rape victim. To recall, the woman had filed a complaint last Sunday against Daati Maharaj at the Fatehpur Beri police station in south Delhi and the case was later transferred to the Crime Branch.

The victim alleged that she was sexually abused at Daati Maharaj's ashrams in Delhi and Rajasthan and also named two male disciples of the godman in her complaint.  In her statement, the woman has told the police that she had been a disciple of Daati Maharaj for a decade but after she was raped by him, she returned to her home in Rajasthan.

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