NO CBI probe against Asaram Bapu: SC
November 09, 2012  11:19
The Supreme Court has refused to direct a CBI probe against Asaram Bapu in the 2008 death case of two boys in his ashram.

Abhishek Vaghela (11) and his cousin Dipesh Vaghela (10) went missing from a residential school of the Asaram Bapu's Motrea Ashram in Ahmedabad in April 2008. Their decomposed bodies were later found from the banks of Sabarmati River near the Ashram.

A chargesheet had been filed against seven sadhaks whose role in the case was investigated by the crime branch. The case was handed over to CID in 2008 following a public outcry over the issue, which after a year of probing had filed a complaint of culpable homicide and booked seven sadhaks of the ashram.

Ssections 304 (causing death by negligence), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 114 (abettor present when offence is committed) of the Indian Penal Code, besides section 6 of Juvenile Justice Act were slapped against the seven.
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