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The CBI has learnt that self-styled preacher Virender Deo Dixit, who was wanted successful cases of alleged rape and mistreatment of his disciples astatine his Rohini ashram, had died successful 2023, officials said.
The bureau has already informed a peculiar tribunal and volition present question abatement of the trial, they said.
Dixit, against whom an Interpol Blue Notice was issued successful 2018, was allegedly connected the tally aft the CBI registered cases against him connected the orders of the Delhi High Court successful 2017.
The CBI had been connected his trail, with the hunt going up to Nepal. The bureau had besides announced a reward of ₹5 lakh for anyone giving credible accusation astir him.
The Hyderabad portion of the bureau got the accusation astir the decease of Dixit successful January 2025, which was confirmed recently, officials said connected Monday (September 29, 2025), adding the tribunal has been informed.
He was successful his aboriginal eighties astatine the clip of his demise successful 2023, they said.
The High Court had directed the CBI to registry cases connected the allegations that helium had confined respective women astatine his ashram, Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, successful Rohini successful New Delhi.
The bureau volition present question the abatement of the proceedings successful the lawsuit successful which it had filed respective complaint sheets, they said.
The bureau had issued 2 Look Out Circulars connected January 22, 2018 and February 22, 2019, against him. An Interpol Blue announcement to find him was besides issued connected the petition of the CBI connected March 26, 2018.
The Delhi High Court had connected December 20, 2017, directed the CBI to analyse the alleged amerciable confinement of girls and women successful the ashram wherever they were kept successful "animal-like" conditions down metallic doors successful a "fortress" surrounded by barbed wire.
The CBI has taken implicit the probe into the 3 FIRs registered by Delhi Police astatine Vijay Vihar constabulary presumption successful Rohini by re-registering them, CBI officials had said.
Two cases were against Dixit for alleged rape and transgression intimidation, portion 1 lawsuit is against unidentified radical for allegedly obstructing the enactment of a precocious court-appointed committee which went to the ashram connected December 19, 2017.
The tribunal had asked the CBI to analyse the FIRs lodged successful Delhi against the Rohini-based ashram and its founder-cum-spiritual caput Dixit and the regular diary entries relating to complaints of missing girls, committee of intersexual offences and adjacent a lawsuit of termination there.
