Indore : Daughter-in-law of self-styled Godman Asaram Bapu, who along with his son Narayan Sai is lodged in jails in connection with rape cases, on Saturday accused the father-son duo of mentally torturing her. Janki (38), who is separated from Sai, has also sought protection from the police alleging that her family members and relatives were being threatened over phone to withdraw cases of domestic violence and alimony that she had filed against Sai in various local courts earlier, her counsel Rohit Yadav told reporters. However, Janki did not name anybody for issuing the ‘threats’. Yadav said that the police had recorded Janki’s statement. While Sai is in Surat jail under various offences including rape of a Surat-based woman, Asaram has been languishing in a Jodhpur jail since August 2013 over allegations of raping a schoolgirl in one of his ashrams.
In her complaint to Khajrana police station, Janki stated that after she got married to Narayan (Harpalani) Sai on May 22, 1997, the latter established illicit relations with other women causing her mental torture.
“When I objected to my husband’s illicit relationship with other women, Sai used to threaten me to keep quiet,” Janki told reporters at the police station. She also accused Sai of indulging in religious hypocrisy and impregnating his disciple. Janki alleged that Sai had threatened to remarry after divorcing her and subsequently married his disciple in Rajasthan and a child was born to them. She also accused Asaram of pressurising her late father Devraj Krishnani to ‘donate’ a valuable property in Bhopal to the Godman.
“We have registered complaint of Janki against Asaram and Sai,” Khajrana police station sub-inspector Shyamkishore Tripathi said, adding that the police would take necessary action after investigating the complaint.
CSP Vipul Shrivatsava said that Janki has requested security for her whenever she is needed to go to the court for hearing in a matter pending before a family court for alimony and spousal support.
