Ahmedabad:A local court here today allowed two more days of remand of the two ladies associated with the Ashram of controversial god-man Swami Nityanand including its local care-taker and young Sadhvi Pranpriya to the police for further investigation in the sensational case pertaining to alleged kidnapping and misbehavior with two minor children of a former disciple.

Pranpriya and her aide Priyatatva were arrested by police on November 20 morning. Police had got five days remand from the court that day.

Today on completion of it the police produced them and sought 3 more days of further remand and the court allowed it till 1 pm of November 27. The prosecution advocated informed the court that the police needed further remand for investigation with regard to the mobile phones, ATM cards etc seized from the Ashram. He also alleged that the duo was not cooperating with the police.

Notably two young and major daughters of the complainant Tamilnadu based disciple of Nityanad, Janardan Sarma, the eldest Lopa Mudra (21) had gone abroad from Bengaluru Ashram while the other Nityanadita (19) has disappeared mysteriously. They had expressed their unwillingness to join her parents. However the younger two children his 14 year old third daughter and 12 year old son have been handed over to him and the basis of their statement the police has lodged the case.

In a related development Lopamudra issued another video today and claimed that she had filed an affidavit that she has not been kidnapped by anyone. She has sent the copies of it to the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, Governor, Chief Justice of Gujarat and the DGP and the Human rights commission among others.

Gujarat High Court will hear the habeaus corpus petition filed by Sarma for physical production of his two young daughters tomorrow. It will be interesting to see whether the two appear before the court or not.

Lopa Mudra, the eldest daughter who had alleged that his father has done embezzlement of Ashram money, had issued a video claiming that she was an adult and was free to take her decisions.

Sarma’s advocate Priyesh Shah said that the two should be produced before the court as there was apprehension that they have been kept under captivity by the Ashram people and the videos issued by them might have been issued under pressure.

On November 1 this month, Sarma, had approached the police claiming that the Nityanand ashram and the school run by it on the DPS leased school administration has forcefully kept four of his children including the three daughters. He later approached the court too. His second daughter Nityanadita dodged the police to escape most likely abroad via Nepal from here.

The whole episode took a nasty turn with the two young daughters addressing the media over video calls and dressed in saffron robes yet wearing designer ear-rings, made very serious allegations against their own parents. The eldest one had alleged that her father had done embezzlement of a huge some of Ashram money. They youngest one about whose whereabouts no one including the police is sure, claimed that her mother Bhuwaneshwari was in to an illicit relationship with another man.

Meanwhile on the instruction of the district collector the survey of the land of DPS in Hathijan area here was also done today. The DPS amid growing criticism for handing over its land to the Ashram, had cancelled it. DPS principal Hitesh Puri had to face action in the regard was released on bail after arrest.

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