The body of a minor girl was recovered from a car parked in front of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu's ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district. The 14-year-old had been missing since April 5. Asaram is a raper convict. A person from the ashram has been taken for questioning and the girl's body has been sent for postmortem.
The body was discovered by the ashram staff, who alerted the police. The girl's mother had lodged a case against three neighbours under IPC Section 363 (kidnapping or maiming a minor for the purpose of begging) at the Kotwali police station.
Asaram Bapu, in 2018, was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl in his Jodhpur ashram. He was convicted by a special court in Jodhpur and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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