He asked me to lick his tongue: Survivor
JAIPUR : A 21-year-old Chhattisgarh law student has accused an Alwar-based self-proclaimed sadhu of inviting her to lick his tongue as part of a ritual before sexually assaulting her.
The 60-year-old Kaushalendra Prapannacharya, or Falahari Maharaj as he is popularly known, was arrested on the woman’s complaint on Saturday and sent to jail for 15 days.
“I am writing Om on my tongue with honey and you will have to lick it. This is how I have imparted knowledge to many people, the Maharaj told me. He then grabbed me…,” the woman alleged in her police report accusing the sadhu of rape.
According to the first information report (FIR), the woman went to his Alwar ashram on August 7 and planned to return that very day, but he asked her to stay the night.
“At about 7.30pm, Baba called me to his room and after sending his disciples away he shut the doors and sat on the bed,” the victim recounted in her complaint.
The “godman” then sexually assaulted the girl. “I went blank and could not react. He told me that he has made many people IAS, IPS officers, legislators and will make me a judge but asked what I will give him in return,” the woman told police.
“Maharaj then made me lie on the bed and said he was doing all this on instructions from god.
He said you don’t have a brother and your mother is too old now ... I can get you a son if you promise to sleep with me when you get married before consummating your wedding,” the FIR reads.
The woman said he advised her to stay away from boys because girls are easily misled.
During the assault, the woman wrote in the FIR, there was a knock on the door.
“He hastily arranged his robes and threatened me with dire consequences if I disclosed anything to anyone. I went to another room and cried the whole night,” she said in her complaint.
Next morning his disciples dropped her at the railway station. After keeping quiet for weeks, the woman narrated the ordeal to her parents and they registered an FIR.