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  • Anand Giri, two others accused of abetting Akhara chief suicide sent to CBI custody

    By PTI

    ALLAHABAD: Swami Anand Giri and two others, arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide by Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad president Narendra Giri last week, were on Monday remanded to the CBI custody for seven days by an Allahabad court.

    The three, including Bade Hanuman Temple priest Adya Prasad Tiwari and his son Sandeep, were remanded to the CBI custody by Chief Judicial Magistrate Harendra Nath.

    District prosecution counsel Gulab Chandra Agrahari said CJM Nath sent the trio to the CBI custody after hearing the agency’s remand application with the three accused joining the court proceeding from the Naini jail, where they have been lodged since their arrests, through video conference.

    The CBI remand for the three will start at 9 am on September 28 and last till 5 pm on October 4, he added.

    Narendra Giri was found hanging from the ceiling of his room in Shri Baghambari Gaddi under the Geoge Town police station area.

    In his suicide note, the deceased had named the three, accusing them of mentally harassing him, following which the police had lodged an FIR under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code on charges of abetting the suicide.

    The Uttar Pradesh police had arrested Anand Giri and Adya Tiwari the very next day on September 21 after the Akhara Parishad chief was found dead in his room.

    The third accused and Tiwari’s son Sandeep was arrested on September 22 and all three of them were remanded to judicial custody after their arrests.

    The CBI took the probe into the case on the Uttar Pradesh government’s recommendation.

  • Swami Anand Giri booked in Mahant Narendra Giri suicide case, brought to Prayagraj

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Swami Anand Giri, whose name found a mention in the suicide note recovered from the room of late chief of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, Mahant Narendra Giri, has been booked for abetment of suicide of the late seer at Georgetown police station in Praygraj, 

    Mahant  Narendra Giri, who was also the Mahant of Bade Hanuman Temple in Prayagraj, was found dead in mysterious circumstances and his body was spotted hanging by a rope from the ceiling by his disciples in his room at Baghambari Muth on Monday evening.

    CM Yogi Adityanath paid his last respects to the late Mahant at his Baghambari math ashram on Tuesday morning and assured the community of saints a thorough and fair probe into the death of the mahant.

    Calling it a major loss to the spiritual and religious sections of society, Adityanath said that the incident would be investigated and the culprits would be adequately punished as per the law.

    “No one will be spared but I will request all to allow the investigation agencies to do their work. No one should make an unnecessary statement over an unfortunate incident. A team of four senior police officials is working on the case and a team of five doctors would carry out a post-mortem examination on Wednesday,” said the CM.

    Meanwhile,  the police sources said that the First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against Swami Anand Giri under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code on late Monday night. In the column of accuse, only the name of Anand Giri is mentioned.

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    Anand Giri was detained by the Uttarakhand Police on Monday night and was brought to Prayagraj in the UP police custody on Tuesday afternoon.

    SP (city) Dinesh Kumar Singh said the case against Anand Giri was registered on the complaint of Baghambari Math ashram Sewadar Amar Giri Pawan Maharaj. As per the complaint, Mahant Giri was in stress and used to say that Anand Giri was harassing him, the SP added.

    As per the complaint lodged, Mahant Giri’s disciples — Sumit Tiwari and Sarvesh Dwivedi — went inside his room when his phone was found to be switched off in the evening. There, both the disciples found him hanging from the ceiling fan. They cut the rope and brought the body down but by that time the seer had already died. The disciples then informed the police, it said.

    So far, besides the arrest of three persons including Swami Anand Giri, priest of Bade Hanumanji temple Adhya Tiwari and his son Sandip Tiwari, six more persons have been detained by the Prayagraj police for investigation.

    Moreover, three other persons including Additional SP OP Pandey, BJP leader Sushil Mishra, and Samajwadi Party leader Induprakash Mishra, who was enjoying the status of a cabinet minister in the Akhilesh government, are also under scanner.

    The sources claimed that all three had played a role in striking a truce between Mahant Narendra Giri and his disciple Swami Anand Giri as they were engaged in a dispute over a piece of land.