The Siddhi of Covering The Guru's Arse - Impugn Victims' Relatives

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Scores of letters confiscated at the ashram run by Baba Virendra Dev Dixit have come under the scanner of the Delhi High Court (HC). The court was informed that the letters - written with a motive to shield the accused from any action taken by authorities concerned - made allegations of sexual harassment levelled by ashram inmates against own relatives.

Even the inspection committee formed by the Delhi HC, comprising Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal, and advocates Ajay Verma and Nandita Rao, admitted that the language and pattern of writing in the letters were almost identical.

The bench of acting Chief Justice Geeta Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar observed:

"It is difficult, if not impossible, to believe scores of women living under one roof levelling similar allegations - all against close relatives. The fact that these complaints have all been bunched up, and were under the control and possession of the ashram casts doubt on their veracity."

The members of the inspection committee told the court that these complaints might have been lodged to prevent people from getting any trace of their relatives in the ashram. The HC has also given the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) a month's time to find out the whereabouts of Virendra Dev Dixit.

The court said that while it will not interfere in any genuine, legitimate and honest spiritual activity, it will also "not countenance any fraudulent or illegal activity". On Thursday, both the counsel for the ashram and the alleged close aide of Dixit, Deepak d'Silva, refused to have any knowledge about the whereabouts of the accused.

The bench also said that the entire organisation was run and managed by Dixit and arguments to the contrary by the ashram's lawyer were "falsified" by information on the website as well as YouTube videos.

DCW chief Maliwal told the court that during the inspection at five other ashrams across Delhi, the team had found some literature that had objectionable contents.

The CBI on Wednesday registered three cases in connection with the alleged illegal confinement of girls and women, and rape at an ashram run by self-styled godman Virendra Dev Dixit in the Capital's Rohini area.

The two cases against Dixit were of alleged rape and criminal intimidation, while one case is against unidentified people for allegedly obstructing the work of an HCappointed committee, which went to the ashram on December 19 last year.

The court was hearing a PIL filed by NGO Foundation for Social Empowerment that informed the court that several minors and women were allegedly illegally confined at Rohini's 'spiritual university'