Storyteller Sadhvi Prem Baisa's sudden death in Rajasthan's Jodhpur has sparked questions of foul play, leading to protests outside the Sadhna Kutir Ashram at Pal Road on Wednesday night, demanding an independent investigation.
Baisa, who was in her twenties, had been brought brain-dead to Jodhpur's Preksha Hospital from the ashram, after which she was declared dead at the hospital.
This sudden death, which came after she allegedly collapsed after being treated for a fever, is one of the main aspects of the case that the police have flagged as suspicious.
Reports say that she was given a Dexona injection for the fever at the ashram, which led to her sudden collapse. The compounder who administered the injection has been detained.
This led people to suspect foul play as the cause of Baisa's death.
However, just four hours after her death came a social media post—uploaded to her own social media handle with 7.05 lakh followers—that shocked people even more and widened the scope of the case.
"I bid goodbye to this world forever, but I have full faith in God and the revered saints that if not during my lifetime, I will surely get justice after death," she wrote in her last post, understood to be an online suicide note.
While this led to reports claiming that suicide was the cause of her death, others claimed that the whole incident had been orchestrated to look like a suicide, and indicated foul play.
Notably, this comes months after a July 2025 viral video, which caused major controversy after it showed her hugging a man.
The sadhvi had, at the time, claimed that it was a digitally edited fake, and added that it had been the work of a few anti-social elements that had been repeatedly harassing her at the time—the very same people involved in a break-in attempt at the ashram a few years ago, at which time her car had been vandalised.