Overview
- Police say Deepak Lodhi, known as Rasik Dulari Sharan, fell from the fourth-floor terrace of Guru Kripa Kunj Ashram on September 25 and was later declared dead at a local hospital.
- The postmortem lists excessive blood loss as the cause of death and notes multiple injuries, including a reported severing of the genitals and fractures.
- Investigators recovered a tile-cutting grinder with blood stains and blood-soaked clothes from his room and have sent the tool and biological samples for forensic testing.
- CCTV footage that captures roughly an 11-minute sequence before the fall has been seized along with the ashram DVR and the disciple’s mobile phone for digital forensics as police treat the case as a suspected suicide but continue to probe all possibilities.
- The family rejects the suicide finding and has sought a CBI-level inquiry while local religious leaders demand a high-level probe, raising public scrutiny of the ashram and leaving prosecutors expecting forensic results to determine whether the injury was self-inflicted or involved others.