By Express News Service
BHOPAL: Controversial godman Swami Vairagyanand Giri alias Mirchi Baba, who campaigned for the opposition Congress within the 2018 meeting polls and 2019 common elections in Madhya Pradesh has been arrested from Gwalior, for allegedly raping a younger girl on the pretext of serving to her conceive a toddler.
The godman who claims to be a Mahamandaleshwar of the Panchayati Niranjani Akhara was arrested from exterior a lodge in Gwalior on Monday-Tuesday intervening night time, just some hours after an FIR was registered in opposition to him u/s 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 506 (legal intimidation) at Bhopal’s Mahila Thana on the 28-year-old alleged rape survivor’s criticism.
“Acting on inputs provided by the Bhopal Police, he (Mirchi Baba) was arrested from outside a hotel in Gwalior and handed over to a team of Bhopal police,” Gwalior district police superintendent Amit Sanghi mentioned on Tuesday.
He was subsequently delivered to Bhopal by police and produced earlier than a courtroom on Tuesday. The courtroom despatched him into judicial custody until August 22, the Bhopal police commissioner Makarand Deouskar confirmed to The New Indian Express.
As per Bhopal police sources, the alleged rape survivor, a 28-years-old girl, hailing from Raisen district, had said within the criticism about not having conceived baby even 4 years after marriage.
She got here to know from somebody concerning the godman treating issueless ladies via tantra-mantra (rituals). Getting the godman’s particulars via a poster, the lady met him at his home in Bhopal’s Minal Residency Colony in Bhopal on July 17.
She additional alleged that after taking her particulars, the Baba provided Bhabhoot (sacred ash) and Sabudana (sago), on consuming which she grew to become unconscious. As she fell unconscious, the godman allegedly raped her and threatened her with dire penalties when she resisted the acute act.
She was subsequently deserted by husband, after he got here to know concerning the incident, whereas she was narrating it to an in depth relative over cellphone. Since then she has been residing at brother’s dwelling.
Importantly, Mirchi Baba has been in information for the reason that 2018 meeting polls and 2019 LS polls, when he campaigned for the Congress within the state. He had carried out a significant ritual with one quintal purple chillies for victory of ex-CM Digvijaya Singh over BJP candidate Pragya Thakur within the 2019 LS polls in Bhopal and had introduced to take Jal Samadhi if Singh misplaced the electoral contest. Singh in the end misplaced the LS polls in opposition to Thakur by enormous margin, after which he had sought permission from Bhopal district administration to take Jal Samadhi.
Recently, he had created a scene at an area physique polls rally of MP Congress president Kamal Nath in Gwalior, when he was not given a spot to take a seat on the stage.
BHOPAL: Controversial godman Swami Vairagyanand Giri alias Mirchi Baba, who campaigned for the opposition Congress within the 2018 meeting polls and 2019 common elections in Madhya Pradesh has been arrested from Gwalior, for allegedly raping a younger girl on the pretext of serving to her conceive a toddler.
The godman who claims to be a Mahamandaleshwar of the Panchayati Niranjani Akhara was arrested from exterior a lodge in Gwalior on Monday-Tuesday intervening night time, just some hours after an FIR was registered in opposition to him u/s 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 506 (legal intimidation) at Bhopal’s Mahila Thana on the 28-year-old alleged rape survivor’s criticism.
“Acting on inputs provided by the Bhopal Police, he (Mirchi Baba) was arrested from outside a hotel in Gwalior and handed over to a team of Bhopal police,” Gwalior district police superintendent Amit Sanghi mentioned on Tuesday.
He was subsequently delivered to Bhopal by police and produced earlier than a courtroom on Tuesday. The courtroom despatched him into judicial custody until August 22, the Bhopal police commissioner Makarand Deouskar confirmed to The New Indian Express.
As per Bhopal police sources, the alleged rape survivor, a 28-years-old girl, hailing from Raisen district, had said within the criticism about not having conceived baby even 4 years after marriage.
She got here to know from somebody concerning the godman treating issueless ladies via tantra-mantra (rituals). Getting the godman’s particulars via a poster, the lady met him at his home in Bhopal’s Minal Residency Colony in Bhopal on July 17.
She additional alleged that after taking her particulars, the Baba provided Bhabhoot (sacred ash) and Sabudana (sago), on consuming which she grew to become unconscious. As she fell unconscious, the godman allegedly raped her and threatened her with dire penalties when she resisted the acute act.
She was subsequently deserted by husband, after he got here to know concerning the incident, whereas she was narrating it to an in depth relative over cellphone. Since then she has been residing at brother’s dwelling.
Importantly, Mirchi Baba has been in information for the reason that 2018 meeting polls and 2019 LS polls, when he campaigned for the Congress within the state. He had carried out a significant ritual with one quintal purple chillies for victory of ex-CM Digvijaya Singh over BJP candidate Pragya Thakur within the 2019 LS polls in Bhopal and had introduced to take Jal Samadhi if Singh misplaced the electoral contest. Singh in the end misplaced the LS polls in opposition to Thakur by enormous margin, after which he had sought permission from Bhopal district administration to take Jal Samadhi.
Recently, he had created a scene at an area physique polls rally of MP Congress president Kamal Nath in Gwalior, when he was not given a spot to take a seat on the stage.
