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Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati connected Tuesday (February 24, 2026) moved the Allahabad High Court seeking anticipatory bail aft being booked for alleged intersexual harassment of insignificant children and different offences.
A announcement has been sent to the bureau of the authorities advocator successful this regard, earlier filing the exertion successful court, sources said.
The FIR was lodged astatine the Jhunsi constabulary presumption successful Prayagraj against Mr. Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Brahmachari implicit allegations of intersexual maltreatment of 2 persons, including a minor, implicit the past year.
According to the FIR, the complainants included Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj and 2 different persons— 1 of them a minor— who alleged intersexual maltreatment by the accused astatine a gurukul and during spiritual congregations, including the precocious concluded Magh Mela successful Prayagraj.
The enactment connected Saturday (February 21, 2026) followed an bid passed by the peculiar justice (POCSO Act), Prayagraj, directing that a lawsuit beryllium registered connected the exertion moved by Mr. Ashutosh Brahmachari and others.
The FIR has been registered nether applicable sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the BNS, officials said.
Besides Mr. Saraswati and Mr. Mukundanand, the ailment besides named 2 to 3 unidentified persons.
It has been alleged that the accused, posing arsenic spiritual preceptors, subjected the insignificant and different younker to repeated intersexual battle connected aggregate occasions implicit the past year.
Mr. Saraswati precocious deed the headlines for his confrontation with the organisers of the Magh Mela successful Prayagraj, whom helium accused of preventing him from taking a bath connected Mauni Amavasya.
Talking to reporters astatine the Vidya Math successful Varanasi, Mr. Saraswati said immoderate lawyers had approached him offering assistance, but helium had nary accusation connected immoderate steps they whitethorn person taken.
He besides showed a photograph and claimed that a constabulary serviceman from Prayagraj was astatine the centre of the “conspiracy” against him.
The representation showed the serviceman cutting a barroom with Mr. Ashutosh Brahmachari lasting adjacent to him.
He besides claimed the medication and constabulary began acting against him connected January 18, coinciding with Mauni Amavasya.
Despite provisions mandating the contiguous registration of an FIR nether the POCSO Act, constabulary did not record a lawsuit connected their own, and alternatively acted lone aft a tribunal order, helium alleged.
The tribunal bid focused much connected ineligible rulings than connected evidence, helium claimed, hinting that idiosyncratic was backing Mr. Ashutosh Brahmachari.
He besides claimed that the officials of the Varanasi Development Authority precocious surveyed the Vidya Math, alleging that the “entire system” was being utilized against him to unit him to retreat from a cattle extortion campaign, which helium said helium would not do.
