Who is Asaram Bapu?
This photograph taken on August 11 shows self-styled Indian ‘godman’ Asaram Bapu as he gestures during a ceremony in Jodhpur. The popular Indian guru… Ahmedabad Fire and Emergency Services official and onlookers gather around a helicopter that crash-landed at a graveyard in the residential Gompitur…
What is the background of Asaram?
Asaram was born into a middle-class Sindhi family of Pakistan, who migrated to Maninagar in Ahmedabad after the Indo-Pak partition in 1947. His businessman father died when he was 10 years old, after which he left his school, and shifted to Vijapur.
What happened to Asaram in Nashik?
• In September 2013, the father of the sexually assaulted girl by Asaram; submitted the audio clippings of the death threats made by his followers against him, to the court. [16] • In September 2013, a illegal encroachment by Asaram’s ashram in Nashik was removed by The Nashik Municipal Corporation. [17]
What was Asaram’s father doing after his death?
Asaram’s father ran a small coal and wood selling business in Ahmedabad. He died when Asaram was just 10 years old. After his father’s demise, Asaram started looking after his father’s business. After a while, he shifted to Vijapur, a city in the Mehsana district of Gujarat.
Asaram Bapu is an Indian religious and spiritual leader who came into the limelight as a godman in the late 1960s. He was born in a middle-class family in the Sindh region of British India.
Did Asaram cure his minor son’s aphasia?
Another devotee of Asaram shared that Asaram cured his minor son’s of Aphasia (an inability to formulate language). Asaram often wore a spotless white dhoti and Kurta and carried a snow-white beard during his discourses. As per some sources, he used to wear the kohl that was made up of burnt bats.