DHC directs CBI to report about Rohini ashram founder

New Delhi, Jan 4: Delhi High Court on Thursday -- after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) -- directed the CBI to submit a report on the whereabouts of VD Dixit, founder of a North Delhi-based Ashram where girls were allegedly kept in illegal confinement.

Delhi High Court was hearing a PIL filed by an NGO, Foundation for Social Empowerment, that several minors and women were allegedly being illegally confined at the so-called spiritual university here and were not allowed to meet with their parents.
It said these complaints against family members appear to have been lodged to dissuade them from pursuing cases against the ashram and Dixit.
Delhi High Court bench had ordered a CBI probe by a SIT into the ashram and its founder without interference in any genuine, legitimate and honest spiritual activity.
Delhi High Court Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar prima facie found substance in the argument of a panel appointed by it that the ashram and its founder VD Dixit were making the girls, housed there, lodge false complaints against their family members. UNI