Complaint against Jain Monks over Viral Screenshots of Video Calls

Mumbai: A police complaint has been filed in Jodhpur city of Rajasthan against Jain monk Sagar Chandrasagar, who is surrounded by serious allegations of misconduct. In the FIR, two nuns who allegedly engaged in obscene acts with Sagar Chandrasagar on WhatsApp calls have also been made accused. The police have not released the names of these two nuns.

Kalpesh Singhvi, president of the Jodhpur-based organization Jinshasan Raksharth Samiti, which filed a police complaint against Sagar Chandrasagar and these two nuns of his own congregation, told that apart from these three accused, he has also made five other Jain monks accused in the complaint. This is probably the first incident in which a complaint has been filed against eight Jain monks and nuns.

An Ahmedabad magistrate’s court had earlier ordered the Paldi police station in Ahmedabad to submit the investigation report on the police complaint filed against Sagar Chandrasagar by June 5.

Some obscene pictures of Jain monk Sagar Chandrasagar and two Jain nuns have gone viral in the past few days. These pictures are screenshots of different video calls in which the Jain monk and two Jain nuns are seen having an obscene fling.

These pictures have caused a stir in the Jain community and there has been a demand to expel the monk and the two nuns from the world. When Sagar Chandrasagar’s guru Acharya Ashoksagar declared these obscene pictures to be fake, Jain leaders were outraged and one of them, Jagatbhai Hasmukhlal Parikh of Ahmedabad, approached the court.