Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 14: Police today arrested Vinod Gupta alias Acharya Bhola Nand son of Bal Gopal Gupta of Alwar, Rajasthan for conspiring to bury skeletons in the `Ashram’ of Asaram at Bhagwati Nagar to confirm his statement given to the news channels that three children were killed and buried in the `Ashram’.
Police said Bhola Nand, who was presently operating from Malad, Mumbai, was approaching a hotel at Gumat when police teams from Nowabad police station arrested him.
Bhola Nand had come here to seek bail from the court.
Police parties headed by SHO Nowabad Jaipal Sharma arrested Bhola Nand.
On October 17, police had booked Bhola Nand for conspiring to implicate Asaram by claiming that three children were buried in his ashram at Bhagwati Nagar here after being murdered.
A case against him has been registered under several Sections of the law, police said.
Last month, a social activist, Dr Raj Kumar, had filed a criminal complaint in court saying that three children were murdered and buried inside Asaram’s ashram as per the statement given by Bhola to a national TV channel.
The court had then directed the police to register a case and start investigations.
During the probe, police had come across a youth, Vikrant Sharma alias Vicky, who revealed that Bhola had telephoned and asked him to get some human skeletons and bury them inside the Ashram so that he could tell the police that three children were buried inside the Ashram after being murdered.
Vikrant had produced before the court a CD of the phone conversation with Bhola Nand in this regard.
Following court orders, police had lodged an FIR of criminal conspiracy against Bhola Nand.
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