Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 13: In the much publicized Bapu Asaram’s Bhagwati Nagar Ashram case in which contempt petition has been filed against Home Secy, DGP, SP City North and SHO Nawabad for willful and intentional disobedience of the order, High Court today directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) Incharge to appear in person along with CD file.
After hearing Senior Advocate M K Bhardwaj with Advocate Gagan Kohli appearing for the petitioner, Justice Bansi Lal Bhat observed that in terms of earlier order, SIT was directed to make all out efforts to get hold of the accused and bring the investigation to its logical conclusion. Moreover, the SIT was directed to keep the this court informed of the developments on weekly basis but no status report has since been filed.
Accordingly, Justice Bhat directed Registry to list the case on April 22 with a direction to the Head of the SIT to appear in person and submit the CD file for perusal.
According to the police case, complainant Vikrant Sharma submitted written complaint before the Duty Magistrate Jammu stating therein that the complainant is resident of Bhagwati Nagar Jammu and was one of the devotees of the Vinod Kumar Gupta alias Bholla Nand, who was Incharge of Bapu Asaram Bhagwati Nagar Ashram in the year 2008-09.
During this period, the complainant used to visit the Ashram daily and was having close association with the Vinod Kumar Gupta alias Bholla Nand. In the month of September, 2013 when Asaram was arrested, the accused started contacting the complainant and few others numbers and tried to seek help from complainant for creating evidence in order to implicate Asaram Bapu.
Initially, the complainant was astonished to hear from Vinod Kumar Gupta alias Bholla Nand about his intention but gradually he came to know that he was trying to implicate Asaram Bapu in false case and then complainant informed Narinder Singh and some other persons and on their advise started recording the telephone conversation of Vinod Kumar Gupta alias Bholla Nand.
Vinod Kumar Gupta alias Bholla Nand asked the complainant to arrange some girls or lady who can level false allegations on Asaram and identity of those girls will not be disclosed. He also asked the complainant to help him in creating false evidence so that whole of the family of Asaram is sent to jail.
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