The teenager was accused mixing poison within the providing. (Representational)
Mahasamund:
A 13-year-old woman was severely injured after she was thrashed and a burning piece of wooden was thrust into her mouth in an ashram in Mahasamund district in Chhattisgarh, a police official stated on Friday.
Three individuals had been arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement within the crime, which occurred on February 24 in Jai Gurudev Manas Ashram in Paterapali village below Bagbahra police station limits, stated Ajay Shankar Tripathi, Sub Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP).
“The criticism was lodged on February 28 by the sufferer’s brother. These arrested embody the ashram’s operator-cum-head guru. As per preliminary probe, the kid, from Abhanpur space in Raipur district, was delivered to the ashram for therapy of some psychological ailment although ‘jhaad-phoonk’ (exorcism),” the SDOP stated.
“After her brother left her on the ashram and returned house, three ‘sevadars’ (volunteers) thrashed the woman after an argument broke out over providing ‘bhog’. The three inserted a bit of burning wooden inside her mouth, inflicting severe burn accidents. They threatened her household to not report the matter to anybody,” he added.
The brother of the sufferer instructed reporters the three males accused the teenager woman of blending poison within the ‘bhog’.
The three have been charged below Indian Penal Code sections 307 (try to homicide), 294 (obscene acts), 506 (prison intimidation) and 34 (frequent intention) of the IPC, with part 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof) additionally slapped towards the operator-cum-head guru, the official knowledgeable.
“The woman was first admitted in a hospital in Bagbahra after which shifted to a medical facility in Arang in Raipur. Now we have discovered lots of people go to the ashram for ‘jhaad-phoonk’ and such strategies of therapy,” Tripathi stated.
The Mahasamund superintendent of police (SP) has ordered inspection of ashrams the place such sorts of therapy was being offered, whereas the state income division has requested for particulars in regards to the ashram in query, its land and different operational particulars, the SDOP stated.
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