Narayan Sai, son of Asaram Bapu, who was arrested on Tuesday night in Pipli, Haryana is being questioned by Crime Branch officials of the Surat Police in connection with a sexual assault case filed against him.
After his arrest, Narayan Sai was brought to Delhi for identification and questioning and was presented in front of Delhi Rohini court. Delhi court then granted the Gujarat Police a day's transit remand to produce him before a court in Surat.
Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate Dheeraj Mor granted the transit remand for Narayan Sai and two other accused, Kaushal Thakur alias Hanuman and driver Ramesh Malhotra.
While declining the plea of 40-year-old Sai seeking transit bail to appear before concerned court in Surat, the court said there are specific allegations against them and Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Surat has already issued warrants against them.
However, the court pulled up the Gujarat Police for not presenting proper documents and case files and asked it to submit scanned documents. The court noted that the Gujarat Police was not able to produce relevant documents related to the case on time.
Sai and four others arrived in Surat early this morning and were to be produced before the court at around 11 a.m.
Sai (40) had been absconding for the past 58 days after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints against his father and him.
Both alleged they were raped by the duo during their stay in the ashram between 2001 and 2005.
Narayan Sai was arrested by Delhi Police. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yada said, "Our team got a tip-off that Sai was on the move from Punjab to Haryana. The team laid a trap and he was arrested from Pipli village near Kurukshetra (in Haryana, 150 km from New Delhi)".
Giving details of the arrest, Yadav said a Delhi Crime Branch team intercepted an SUV with an Uttar Pradesh registration number at a refuelling station near Kurukshetra.
Yadav said that the Delhi Police's Crime Branch had deputed four teams to nab Narayan Sai following information that he could be in Punjab's Ludhiana city, hiding in a cow-shed. The police team reached Ludhiana but failed to find Sai, who had left the place 30 minutes prior to their arrival.
"After chasing Sai over around 200 km, we nabbed him around 10.15 p.m. Tuesday along with his follower Hanuman, driver Ramesh and a juvenile near a petrol pump at Pipli village in Kurukshetra, Haryana," Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Kumar Gyanesh.
Police said that Sai kept shifting his locations - from Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Thane (Maharastra), Hardwar (Uttarakhand) to places in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and other states during his nearly two-month run from law. The police had announced a reward of Rs 500,000 on information about Sai.
Addressing media in New Delhi, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) S.B.K. Singh said: "We have recovered Rs.261,000 from Narayan Sai, six mobile phones and Rs.13,500 from Hanuman."
Asaram Bapu, 72, is currently lodged in the Jodhpur Central Jail for sexually assaulting a girl, 16, in his Jodhpur ashram of Rajasthan in August. Asaram also played a cat-and-mouse game with the police before he was arrested from Indore September 1.
(with inputs from IANS)
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