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• Facing Swami Chinmayanand who forced off with my family.”
warrant A her to undergo an abortion. “The situation gradually started
court recently The victim, in a telephonic con- changing after 2009. Several peo-
issued bailable versation through her husband told ple would ask me why I was still at
warrant against Tehelka, “My mother is a staunch re- the ashram even after completion
Swami ligious, so we used to listen to Bhag- of my studies? Therefore, they ap-
Chinmayanand wat Katha for days at the Haridwar pointed me as the secretary of the
ashram. Subsequently, the ashram college. I then started sharing my
started calling us and the Sadhus painful nightmares with the people
became part of our family functions. who used to come to the ashram. I
Finally, they approached me and in- then planned to escape from the
doctrinated me to become a Sadhvi.” hell with the help of people whom
Narrating her ordeal further Swami I trusted. They assembled on that
she said, “When finally I conveyed Chinmayanand day to ensure safe passage for me.
my decision to become a Sadhvi to Seeing so many people around, the
my family, they were shocked.”… “In was successful in employees could not stop me. And,
2004, when I went to Haridwar, I evading his arrest that is when I met my future hus-
was asked to shift one of their Shah- band to whom I narrated my story,”
jahanpur college and ashram for even after a Sadhvi she told Tehelka while recalling the
further studies. The main reason for memories.
shifting me to Shahjahanpur was of his Ashram After she escaped, the ‘victim’
that the disciples from other places registered an FIR faced the accusation of stealing
used to visit the crowded Haridwar cash and ornaments from the ash-
ashram. The Shahjahanpur ashram under charges of ram. “They tried to prove that my
has only employees and a group of rape and kidnapping husband was a blackmailer, and I
criminals…There I was threatened, had political aspirations and thirst
held captive and made to totally cut- against him for name and fame,” she explained.
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