Overview
- The 25-year-old disciple Deepak Lodhi, known as Rasik Dulari, was found after falling from the fourth-floor terrace of Guru Kripa Kunj Ashram on Friday and was declared dead at a nearby hospital.
- Police say the postmortem found excessive blood loss and a severe injury to his private part, and officers recovered a tile-cutting grinder with blood stains from his room that has been sent for laboratory analysis.
- Investigators have seized CCTV DVRs and say footage captures about an 11-minute sequence from when he left his room to the fatal jump, and his mobile phone was sent to a forensic lab for recovery of deleted chats, photos and videos.
- Authorities are treating the case as a suspected suicide while they examine physical and digital evidence, but Rasik’s family and several Vrindavan saints have rejected that conclusion and demanded a CBI or other high-level inquiry.
- Ongoing forensic work on the grinder, blood samples and phone data will be needed to establish the sequence and motive, and the outcome could prompt wider scrutiny of the ashram and local oversight of religious institutions.