05-01-2008, 04:51 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hindu guru held for indecency continues tour in US (Lead)
New York, April 30 : A prominent Hindu religious leader with a worldwide following and a huge ashram complex in the US, who was detained on charges of indecency with minor girls, is carrying on with his scheduled programme.
<b>Swami Prakashanand Saraswati</b>, 79, founder of Barsana Dham, a 200-acre temple and ashram complex near Austin, Texas, was accused of groping two underage girls on several occasions between 1993 and 1996.
According to local media reports, detectives began investigating the swami, a votary of the path of devotional love, in August 2007 but indictment on 20 counts of indecency with a child or sexual contact was handed down in April.
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Excerpts from his book were once quoated by some IF member once. But this looks surprising, the cases are as old as 12 to 15 years?
New York, April 30 : A prominent Hindu religious leader with a worldwide following and a huge ashram complex in the US, who was detained on charges of indecency with minor girls, is carrying on with his scheduled programme.
<b>Swami Prakashanand Saraswati</b>, 79, founder of Barsana Dham, a 200-acre temple and ashram complex near Austin, Texas, was accused of groping two underage girls on several occasions between 1993 and 1996.
According to local media reports, detectives began investigating the swami, a votary of the path of devotional love, in August 2007 but indictment on 20 counts of indecency with a child or sexual contact was handed down in April.
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=...s&id=54801<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Excerpts from his book were once quoated by some IF member once. But this looks surprising, the cases are as old as 12 to 15 years?