AHMEDABAD: The father of the two girls allegedly missing from the Nithyananda ashram, on Tuesday approached the Gujarat high court seeking transfer of investigation into his complaints to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The complainant’s main contention was that the central agency would be better placed to investigate and coordinate with Interpol because the prime accused Nithyananda and his two daughters are not in India. Local cops would find it difficult to investigate his complaints.
The complainant express dissatisfaction with the investigation, which has culminated in a chargesheet, by Ahmedabad rural police. He claimed that the investigation was not carried out in a neutral manner. It is by handing the probe over to CBI that lacunae in the local police’s investigation can be filled.
The complainant also demanded further investigation because the evidence gathered by police with regard to illegal confinement of children and the missing girls was not enough, the petition said.
The HC may take up this petition later this week.
On January 17, Vivekanandnagar police filed a chargesheet against the two ashram administrators, Harini Chelappan alias Pranpriya and Riddhi Ravikiran alias Priatatva, and showed Nithyananda as an absconder. Police have had Interpol issue a blue-corner notice against Nithyananda and have obtained an arrest warrant from a local court.
The two administrators, who are behind bars since the registration of the FIR in November, have been accused of illegally confining children, abusing them and putting them to labour.
The complainant express dissatisfaction with the investigation, which has culminated in a chargesheet, by Ahmedabad rural police. He claimed that the investigation was not carried out in a neutral manner. It is by handing the probe over to CBI that lacunae in the local police’s investigation can be filled.
The complainant also demanded further investigation because the evidence gathered by police with regard to illegal confinement of children and the missing girls was not enough, the petition said.
The HC may take up this petition later this week.
On January 17, Vivekanandnagar police filed a chargesheet against the two ashram administrators, Harini Chelappan alias Pranpriya and Riddhi Ravikiran alias Priatatva, and showed Nithyananda as an absconder. Police have had Interpol issue a blue-corner notice against Nithyananda and have obtained an arrest warrant from a local court.
The two administrators, who are behind bars since the registration of the FIR in November, have been accused of illegally confining children, abusing them and putting them to labour.
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