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“Black magic was practised in Gujarat ashram”

AHMEDABAD: Exactly a year after the death of two boys under suspicious circumstances at the Asaram Bapu Ashram at Motera on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, the Gujarat CID has given credence to the allegation of “black magic” as the cause of death.

Filing an affidavit in the Gujarat High Court on behalf of the State government, State CID officer H. B. Rajput has claimed that at least three close associates of the controversial “sant” had “confessed” during the lie-detection test that black magic was being practised in the Ashram. The affidavit, which sought the court’s permission for undertaking narco-analysis tests on the three associates, quoted Minketan Patra, Uday Sanghani and Vikas Khemka as having said they had deliberately hidden the fact from the police during inquiry.

The two cousins, Dipesh (10) and Abhishek Waghela (11), both students of the Asaram Bapu Ashram school in Ahmedabad, were reported “missing” on July 3, last year. Their bodies were recovered from the Sabarmati river bed just behind the Motera Ashram premises the next day.

The parents and relatives had from the beginning expressed the suspicion that the boys were “sacrificed” for Tantrik rituals. The Ashram officials vehemently denied the allegations, claiming that it was a deliberate attempt to defame the Bapu and thousands of his followers all over the country.

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