Asaram Bapu’s ashram shelters ‘cheat’ India, India Today – 1/5
Asaram shelters law-breaker in his ashram Sant Asaram Bapu, who has hogged the headlines a number of times because of one controversy or the other, now seems to be shelter ‘law-breakers’ also. In a sting operation Headlines Today caught the famous preacher assuring a fugitive from the United States of not just shelter in his ashram, but also counselling her. The undercover reporters of Headlines Today met Asaram claiming to be the representatives of a company and told him that a woman (referred as Poonam Khanna in the conversation) whom the US police and the FBI were searching for in connection with some fraud cases wanted a place to hide. Here is a part of conversation between Asaram Bapu — one of India’s most popular “godmen” — and the Headlines Today reporters: Reporter: After leaving this place I told Poonam Khanna that her future is now secure. She has no reasons to worry. Asaram: I will take care of that. Reporter: I told her not to worry about her fraud case, all that will end. She just needs to come to Bapu with a clean heart. She did not know where we are from or who we are, but she became extremely happy. She told me she is wanted in a fraud case in America. But I told her not to worry because she is already in India, not in Austin. Asaram: Let her meet me once. I will give her ‘mantra’ that will make her sentimental. Asaram’s assurance was a big surprise as the reporters meeting him clearly told that the woman they wanted to hide at his ashram had committed a …
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