New Delhi, October 1: The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Monday has filed a chargesheet against the self-styled godman Daati Maharaj for allegedly raping a disciple in his ashrams in Rajasthan. The Crime Branch has filed charge-sheet in the case under sections 376, 377 of IPC at Saket Court. Earlier this week, the godman had come to the Crime Branch office in Chanakyapuri and was questioned for close to two hours.

In June, a Delhi Police team, accompanied by the rape victim had visited the self-styled godman's ashram in Pali, Rajasthan to gather evidence, but they failed to find him at the ashram. According to a report by PTI, one of the witnesses in the rape case, Sachin Jain, had lodged a police complaint, alleging that he had received threats from the associates of the former. In his complaint, Jain stated that six men, who claimed to be associates of Daati Maharaj, held Jain on gunpoint and asked him to step out of the car.

The victim had filed the complaint against the godman, his three brothers and a woman at the Fatehpur Beri police station in south Delhi in June. According to a report by PTI, the woman has told the police that she was a disciple of Daati Maharaj for a decade, but after she was raped by him, she had returned to her home in Rajasthan.

Reports inform that the case was later transferred to the Crime Branch. Reports informed that the victim alleged that she was sexually abused at Maharaj's ashrams in Delhi and Rajasthan.

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