Asaram followers booked for violating prohibitory orders in U.P.'s Shahjahanpur
The Hindu
Asaram was convicted in April 2018 of raping a Shahjahanpur girl at his ashram in Manai village near Rajasthan's Jodhpur in 2013.
A group of followers of self-styled godman Asaram, who is serving a life sentence in a rape case, was booked for violating prohibitory orders by holding a programme here to worship him, the police said on Saturday.
Those booked are Rajkumar, the main organiser of the event, Rakesh, Sunil, Chandan Das, Daksh Muni and some unidentified people, they said.
The Superintendent of Police (city) Sanjay Kumar said a few followers of Asaram were holding a programme to worship him in the Kant police station area. They were asked by a local BJP leader, Santosh Dixit, to stop the programme but they did not agree.
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