A team of officials including Delhi Commission rescued as many as 40 girls from an ashram in the national capital’s Rohini area.
The Rohini ashram is run by a self-styled godman called Virendra Dev Dikshit, a ‘baba’ believed to be obsessed with the idea of having 16,000 women with him. According to some beliefs, that is the number of wives that Lord Krishna had.
The raids on Rohini’s Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya ashram earlier this week find out a maze of rooms in search of victims and other evidence, the exact number of girls being held at the ashram wasn’t immediately known.
According to reports, it wasn’t clear who was part of the team that rescued the 40 girls from the Rohini ashram last night.
Authorities first raided Dikshit’s Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya on Tuesday when they found a massive stock of what seemed to be medicines and syringes was found. it was discovered that the girls at the Rohini ashram were housed in inhumane conditions.
The girls were not permitted to meet their relatives or friends and were confined to cramped spaces with no sunlight, with metal grills blocking their exit. The reports reveal that a chilling modus operandi allegedly used by Virendra Dev Dikshit to get parents to send girls to his ashram. The parents claim Dikshit made them sign a stamp paper stating they willingly handed over their daughter(s) to him.
Once in his ashram, the girls would allegedly be sexually assaulted. And once they turned 18, Dikshit would allegedly make them sign a paper that said they were willingly staying with him.
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