The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the CBI to investigate the alleged illegal confinement of girls and women in a north Delhi ashram where they were kept in “animal-like” conditions behind metal doors in a “fortress” surrounded by barbed wire.
A Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar asked the CBI director to forthwith constitute a special investigation team. It asked the CBI to investigate the FIRs lodged against the Rohini-based ashram and its founder-cum-spiritual head Virender Dev Dixit and the diary entries relating to complaints of the missing girls, commission of sexual offences and even a case of suicide there.
