New Delhi, Dec 5 :Ending his 58-day run from the regulation, controversial spiritual guru Asaram Bapu’s son Narayan Sai, accused in a rape case in Surat, was arrested late Tuesday night from Haryana. A Delhi courtroom granted the the Gujarat Police a day’s transit remand to to provide him ahead of a court docket in Surat.
Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Dheeraj Mor granted the transit remand for Narayan Sai and two other accused, Kaushal Thakur alias Hanuman and driver Ramesh Malhotra. A court in Surat had past issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to Narayan Sai.
The court pulled up the Gujarat Police for now not providing correct documents and case information and requested it to submit scanned documents. The court docket stated that the Gujarat Police used to be now not ready to produce relevant documents related to the case on time.
Narayan Sai was once on the run after a grievance was once filed through a 30 yrs. lady that he raped her between 2001 and 2005.
“Our crew got a tip-off that Sai was once on the move from Punjab to Haryana. The crew laid a entice and he used to be arrested from Pipli village close to Kurukshetra (in Haryana, a hundred and fifty km from New Delhi),” extra Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav informed in New Delhi.
Sai, 40, who had long gone underground after two sisters from Surat filed rape complaints in opposition to his father and him. Each alleged they have been raped through the duo during their keep within the ashram within the mid-2000s.
Sai’s father Asaram, seventy two, is in Jodhpur significant detention center for sexually assaulting a woman, sixteen, in his Jodhpur ashram of Rajasthan in August. Asaram additionally performed a cat-and-mouse sport with the police before he was arrested from Indore Sep 1.
Sai was once sporting a purple headgear, T-shirt, pant and a jacket to cover his identity when he used to be arrested.
Giving important points of the arrest, Yadav said a Delhi Crime department team intercepted an SUV with an Uttar Pradesh registration number at a refuelling station near Kurukshetra.
Yadav mentioned that the Delhi Police’s Crime branch had deputed 4 teams to nab Narayan Sai following knowledge that he might be in Punjab’s Ludhiana metropolis, hiding in a cow-shed. The police team reached Ludhiana however failed to search out Sai, who had left the situation half-hour 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 close to a petrol pump at Pipli village in Kurukshetra, Haryana,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (crime) Kumar Gyanesh instructed.
Sai, who has been continuously on the transfer from one metropolis to another, was once within the vehicle together with devotee Hanuman, driver Ramesh and a juvenile. The juvenile has been let off whereas Hanuman and driver Ramesh had been arrested together with Narayan Sai.
Police mentioned that Sai kept transferring his locations – from Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Thane (Maharastra), Hardwar (Uttarakhand) to places in Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Delhi and different states all the way through his nearly two-month run from law. The police had introduced a reward of Rs 500,000 on details about Sai.
Addressing media in New Delhi, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) S.B. Singh said: “We have recovered Rs.261,000 from Narayan Sai, six mobile phones and Rs.13,500 from Hanuman.”
Gujarat Police told the court that Sai was once seeking to break out from the regulation.
Police stated Sai and Hanuman have been already mentioned in the complaint while all the way through investigation it used to be published that Malhotra was once sending girls to Sai. Police alleged that the three had been equal participants within the legal misconduct.
Sai’s advice Pradeep Rana instructed the court docket that Sai was once going to give up earlier than a court in Gujarat however police arrested him on a tip-off. He adverse the police’s plea and stated that Sai will cooperate within the investigation. Any other defence guidance, A.P. Singh mentioned the case used to be politically stimulated and was registered in a bid to malign the picture of Hindu seers.