A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences court in Ahmedabad filed complaints against several police officers investigating a c...
A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences court in Ahmedabad filed complaints against several police officers investigating a case of abduction against religious leader Nithyananda, for allegedly showing pornographic content to children at his ashram, PTI reported on Tuesday. The first information report was lodged on the basis of a complaint petition filed by a follower of the religious leader on Friday.
A case was registered against 14 police officials, including members of the Child Welfare Committee at Vivekanandanagar police station in Ahmedabad. Earlier in November, the police here had charged the controversial godman and two of his women disciples for wrongful confinement and abduction of two girls and a boy who were living in his ashram.
The police investigation at the ashram took place after Janardana Sharma and his wife, in a habeas corpus petition, alleged that children were kept under “illegal confinement” in the ashram.
In his petition, Girish Turlapati alleged that officials “under the guise of carrying out investigation” had asked offensive questions to children residing in Nithyananda’s ashram, The Indian Express reported. He said children were mentally tortured and traumatised and that their “personal space and privacy was infringed on”.
Turlapati also accused the investigating officials of showing children morphed pornographic videos. Children were “physically...
