http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Sex-abuse-case-Jodhpur-police-team-reaches-Asaram-Bapus-Indore-ashram/articleshow/22093271.cms

Sex abuse case: Jodhpur police team reaches Asaram Bapu's Indore
ashramPTI | Aug
27, 2013, 02.18 PM IST

INDORE: A Jodhpur police team on Tuesday reached controversial self-styled
godman Asaram Bapu's ashram here to deliver summons to him in the case of
alleged sexual abuse of a minor.

An inspector and a policemen went to the ashram to deliver the summons to
Asaram Bapu, asking him to appear before Jodhpur police for questioning by
August 30 in the case, Bhawar Kuan police sources said.

Ashramites told the two-member Jodhpur team that 72-year-old Asaram was in
meditation.

Jodhpur police on Monday delivered summons toAsaram
Bapu<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Asaram-Bapu> in
Ahmedabad to appear before it for questioning by August 30 in connection
with the allegation of sexual abuse levelled against him by the 16-year-old
girl. The summons was delivered to a representative of Asaram.

The godman has been booked for allegedly sexually assaulting the girl in a
Jodhpur ashram on August 15 under sections 376, 342, 506 and 509 of the
IPC, section 8 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act
(POCSO) and sections 23 and 26 of the
Juvenile<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Juvenile-(musician)>
Justice
Act.

Besides the summons served on Asaram Bapu, notices have also been issued to
the manager of Chhindwara gurukul in Madhya
Pradesh<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Madhya-Pradesh>,
hostel warden and the main caretaker of Asaram, who was present at Manai
ashram in Jodhpur with him when the alleged sexual assault took place there.

The girl was studying in Asaram's Chhindwara gurukul before she was sent to
the Jodhpur ashram, police said.

The self-styled godman has claimed that he was innocent and regards the
minor as his "daughter".

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