Woman who eloped with ‘love guru’ returns home with infant

Rajkot: A 21-year-old woman who had eloped with ‘love guru’ Dhaval Trivedi, convicted of raping two minor girls, returned to her home in Chotila of Surendranagar district on Saturday. She was carrying an 11-month-old child believed to be of Trivedi (47) with whom she had eloped in August 2018.
In 2012, Trivedi had made two girls elope with him. He was arrested in Punjab in 2014. Rajkot sessions court had sentenced him to life imprisonment, subsequent of which he was lodged in Rajkot Central Jail.
“Trivedi had obtained parole from the jail in August 2018. After his release from the jail, he changed his identity and started working as an English teacher at an English speaking class from where he made the concerned woman elope with him,” said an official from Chotila police station. After eloping with the woman, who was aged 19 then, Trivedi had taken her to Delhi, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh (UP). Trivedi and the woman started living together in a village of UP bordering Nepal.
After she had a fallout with Trivedi, the woman returned to her home in Chotila, carrying the child born out of her relationship with Trivedi.
Meanwhile, the Central Bureau of Investigation, which is probing into the cases against Trivedi, has intensified its manhunt for him. The Chotila police has informed the CBI of the development and a team from the central agency was on its way to meet the girl.