Daijiworld Media Network
Surat, Dec 5: Masquerading as a Sikh man and hiding in a cowshed for around a month in order the clutches of the Law and yet found himself in presented before a court here, today, on charges of rape, sexual assault, illegal confinement among others. The charges against Narayan Sai as well as his father Asaram Bapu, were filed by two sisters hailing from Surat and claiming that they had been victims of the father-son duo for 3-4 years at a stretch.
Surat police registered these complaints at Jehangirpura and Ahmedabad given that the location of crimes came under the respective jurisdictions of these police stations. Asaram (75) had been arrested in September while Narayan Sai was arrested yesterday after running from the police for a total of 58 days, at Pipli village on the Delhi - Haryana border.
Additional commissioner of Delhi Police, Ravindra Yadav, revealed that Sai had been secreted away in a cowshed by one of Asaram's disciples. Sai is known to have used 132 SIM cards in 6 different phones in order to dodge the police. The police on the other hand covertly closed in on Sai and his aides as soon as they learnt of his exact location in the city of Ludhiana. More police personnel descended upon the city and kept a closer watch on the movement of vehicles to and from the cowshed.
SBK Singh, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Delhi, said that Sai left his hideout at 9.30pm on Tuesday in an SUV bearing a UP registration number. The Delhi Police cleverly had five more teams block all possible routes that the vehicle could take to make good their escape. These teams manned the roads to Ludhiana, Rajpura, Zirakpur, Chandigarh and Ambala. It was the team at Ambala that came upon the vehicle as it headed towards Kurukshetra and stopping for fuel. They were then followed and overtaken near Pipli.
When surrounded and questioned Sai denied his identity until the remaining personnel from the Delhi Crime Branch arrived and carted him off to Delhi. The Gujarat police in their quest for Sai had previously raided several of the duo's ashrams located in Delhi, located at Rohini, Jafarpura Kalan and on Ridge road, in mid-October. Sai on the other hand had on the other hand managed to elude the police of several states before the Delhi Crime Branch caught up with him.
Asaram Bapu on the other hand, is enjoying a breather before his trial begins on December 9 owing to the Assembly election results being announced on December 8 in Delhi. The request for the postponement came from the police who are busy with keeping law and order.