Three Chhattisgarh ashram males arrested for inserting burning wooden in woman’s mouth

By PTI

MAHASAMUND: A 13-year-old woman was significantly injured after she was thrashed and a burning piece of wooden was thrust into her mouth in an ashram in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh, a police official stated on Friday.

Three individuals had been arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement within the crime, which befell on February 24 in Jai Gurudev Manas Ashram in Paterapali village below Bagbahra police station limits, stated Ajay Shankar Tripathi, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).

“The complaint was lodged on February 28 by the victim’s brother. Those arrested include the ashram’s operator-cum-head guru. As per initial probe, the child, from Abhanpur area in Raipur district, was brought to the ashram for treatment of some mental ailment though ‘jhaad-phoonk’ (exorcism),” the SDOP stated.

“After her brother left her at the ashram and returned home, three ‘sevadars’ (volunteers) thrashed the girl after an argument broke out over offering ‘bhog’. The three inserted a piece of burning wood inside her mouth, causing serious burn injuries. They threatened her kin to not report the matter to anyone,” he added.

The brother of the sufferer instructed reporters the three males accused the teenager woman of blending poison within the ‘bhog’.

The three have been charged below Indian Penal Code sections 307 (try and homicide), 294 (obscene acts), 506 (legal intimidation) and 34 (frequent intention) of the IPC, with part 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof) additionally slapped towards the operator-cum-head guru, the official knowledgeable.

“The woman was first admitted in a hospital in Bagbahra after which shifted to a medical facility in Arang in Raipur. We have discovered lots of people go to the ashram for ‘jhaad-phoonk’ and such strategies of remedy,” Tripathi stated.

The Mahasamund superintendent of police (SP) has ordered inspection of ashrams the place such sorts of remedy was being offered, whereas the state income division has requested for particulars concerning the ashram in query, its land and different operational particulars, the SDOP stated.

MAHASAMUND: A 13-year-old woman was significantly injured after she was thrashed and a burning piece of wooden was thrust into her mouth in an ashram in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh, a police official stated on Friday.

Three individuals had been arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement within the crime, which befell on February 24 in Jai Gurudev Manas Ashram in Paterapali village below Bagbahra police station limits, stated Ajay Shankar Tripathi, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).

“The complaint was lodged on February 28 by the victim’s brother. Those arrested include the ashram’s operator-cum-head guru. As per initial probe, the child, from Abhanpur area in Raipur district, was brought to the ashram for treatment of some mental ailment though ‘jhaad-phoonk’ (exorcism),” the SDOP stated.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“After her brother left her at the ashram and returned home, three ‘sevadars’ (volunteers) thrashed the girl after an argument broke out over offering ‘bhog’. The three inserted a piece of burning wood inside her mouth, causing serious burn injuries. They threatened her kin to not report the matter to anyone,” he added.

The brother of the sufferer instructed reporters the three males accused the teenager woman of blending poison within the ‘bhog’.

The three have been charged below Indian Penal Code sections 307 (try and homicide), 294 (obscene acts), 506 (legal intimidation) and 34 (frequent intention) of the IPC, with part 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof) additionally slapped towards the operator-cum-head guru, the official knowledgeable.

“The woman was first admitted in a hospital in Bagbahra after which shifted to a medical facility in Arang in Raipur. We have discovered lots of people go to the ashram for ‘jhaad-phoonk’ and such strategies of remedy,” Tripathi stated.

The Mahasamund superintendent of police (SP) has ordered inspection of ashrams the place such sorts of remedy was being offered, whereas the state income division has requested for particulars concerning the ashram in query, its land and different operational particulars, the SDOP stated.