Gujarat High Court today issued notice to the state government on a petition seeking CBI probe into the death of two students of gurukul run by god man Asaram in Sabarmati area of Ahmedabad. The issue of the death of two cousins had led to violent protests by people and even the Ashram was attacked.
The bodies of the Abhishek Vaghela, 11, and Dipesh Vaghela, 10, were found on the Sabarmati river bank, a few yards away from Asaram Bapu’s school, on July 5, 2008. The boys were missing from the gurukul on the eve of Rathyatra festival.
Parents of both the boys had alleged that they had been killed in Asaram Bapu’s ashram as part of some occult ritual and then the bodies dumped in the river bed. The protest made Gujarat government appoint a commission to look into the circumstances
S.H. Iyer, counsel for the boys’ families, said that the court took objection to the state government setting up an inquiry commission headed by retired Justice B.K. Trivedi and asked the government why the case should not be probed by the CBI.
In its notice, the court said that it had asked the government to institute a direct investigation into the deaths and not set up an inquiry commission.
The local police have not been able to make any headway in the case so far apart from questioning the witness who first saw the decomposed bodies of the two boys on the river bank.
Source: Gujarat Global
