14-year-old killed the boys at Asaram's ashram: Cops

MYSTERIOUS DEATHS: The Madhya Pradesh police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for the murder of two boys at Asaram Bapu’s ashram.

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Chhindwara: The Madhya Pradesh police have arrested a 14-year-old boy for the murder of two boys at Asaram Bapu’s ashram.

The mysterious murders of two boys at the ashram of Asaram Bapu in Chhindwara recently had sparked off a huge controversy.

However, the police have arrested a 14-year-old and they claim to have cracked the case. They say that 14-year-old strangled the two boys. They also say the accused is mentally unstable.

“This is not a natural death, The killer did not want to stay in the Gurukul,” says IG, Jabalpur, MR Krishna.

The police say the evidence is the teeth marks found on the body of one of the kids. However, the parents of the accused say their son is being framed as part of a cover-up.

“My son is being framed. He could not have done this. This is a conspiracy against my son,” say parents of the accused.

Vedant, 5, was found unconscious in the bathroom of the gurukul run by Asaram Bapu Thursday. On Tuesday evening, Ramkrishna Mohan Yadav, 5, was found dead in similar conditions in the school.

In Ahmedabad, two students — Deepesh Vaghela, 10, and his cousin Abhishek Vaghela, 11 — went missing July 4 from the gurukul. Their bodies were found from the nearby Sabarmati riverbed July 6.

The brutal murders at the ashram had led to violent protests in different parts of the country with some political parties demanding the arrest of the spiritual guru. However, now it is a 14-year-old boy who is in police custody.