Shahjahanpur : As self-styled godman Asaram was declared guilty of rape by a judge inside Jodhpur jail, the five-year wait for a family in Uttar Pradesh came to pass.
"My daughter is happy today," said the father of the rape survivor who was 16 when she was raped in Asaram’s ashram near Jodhpur, while her parents waited outside.
The family, devotees of 77-year-old Asaram, had been tricked into sending the girl to him. The girl studied at another ashram of Asaram in Madhya Pradesh, where staff claimed she was "possessed" by evil spirits and needed to be exorcised by "Bapuji".
"We hope he will get tough punishment. We will continue fighting till the end till our daughter gets justice," the father told NDTV, responding to Asaram’s conviction.
