Police rescue girls from PBK ashram: BKWSU plot?
Posted: 02 Sep 2011
Cops rescue girls from ashram
On August 30, 2011 The Pioneer reported that in what seems to be a case of human trafficking a 17-year-old girl kidnapped from Banda on last Tuesday was recovered from ashram cum `Adhyatmik Ishwariya Visvidyalaya' of one Baba Virendra Dev Dixit in Fatehgarh on Monday. The cops also claimed to have found over a dozen minor girls in the age group of 4-years to 6-years besides CDs, tapes and other items.
Circle Officer (City) Farukabad, VK Singh, who led the raid party claimed that they will verify that from where the other girls came as the staff of the Ashram failed to give any convincing answer and it was suspected that they might be also picked up at early age.
Minor girls recovered from UP ‘spiritual school’
Sanjay Pandey, Lucknow, August 30, DHNS:
Dozens of minor girls have been recovered from a school-cum-ashram in a posh locality in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad town, about 250 kilometers from here, in what the police suspect an alleged case of sex-racket being run from the so-called ‘Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vidyalaya’.
The police, however, do not rule out the possibility of the girls being sexually exploited. “All the girls would be medically examined to ascertain if they had been sexually exploited,” the officials said adding that a case had been registered against the owner of the ‘ashram’ Virendra Dixit, though he was yet to be arrested.
The matter came to light when the Father of Meena, lodged a report with the police in Banda stating that his daughter had gone missing. Meena had been abducted from Banda and was brought to the ‘ashram’, his Father Rakesh Kumar Singh alleged.
Further investigations by the police on Monday led them to the ‘spiritual school’ in Farrukhabad town, sources said. All the girls, recovered from the ‘ashram’, were in the age group of 10 to 15 years. “It appears that all of them were either abducted from different places or were brought on the pretext of providing them religious and spiritual education after persuading their parents,” the police sources said adding, “We are trying to contact their (girls’) families.”
To the religious minded public, the school-cum-ashram was meant to provide ‘spiritual knowledge’ to the people and teach them how to attain salvation. But the reality turned out to be quite the opposite.
The raiding team, which found the 17-year-old girl Meena, who had gone missing from Banda district a fortnight back, was shocked to see that there were dozens of minor girls in the school.