Know more about the controversies of Asaram Bapu

New Delhi: Asaram Bapu preaches the existence of One Supreme Conscious and claims Bhakti yoga, Gnana yoga and Karma yoga as influences.He was born in Berani village of the Nawabshah District in undivided India (present day Pakistan), to Menhgiba and Thaumal Sirumalani.Last year in the month of August he escaped a helicopter crash while landing at Godhra. Bapu, the pilot, and the other passengers survived unharmed.This spiritual Guru always remain surrounded with some or the other controversies, From land encroachement to murder. Here we mention some of them:In the year 2000, the Asaram Ashram was allocated about 10 acres of land in Bhairavi village by the Gujarat government. The ashram encroached on an additional 6 acres, leading to protests in the local villages. In another land encroachment controversy in the year 2001, The Yog Vedanta Samiti of Asaram Bapu was reportedly given permission to use the premises of the Mangalya temple in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh for 11 days for a satsang . The samiti failed to vacate the premises after the satsang, and continue to occupy a total of 100 acres of land, valued at over 700 crores.In December 2009, Raju Chandak (A former member of the Asaram ashram) was attacked with guns by two unknown persons in the Ramnagar locality of Sabarmati. The Gujarat police filed an attempt to murder case against Asaram Bapu and two others. On July 5, 2008 bodies of two children, Dipesh Vaghela and Abhishek Vaghela were found on the Sabarmati riverbed after they went missing. They were studying at Ashram's Gurukul at Motera.In this case CBI filed a complaint of culpable homicide and booked seven sadhaks of the ashram, though the CID found no direct evidence of such activities during their searches. In 2012 Asaram Bapu was severely criticized by the media after his remark that the December 16, 2012 Delhi gang rape victim, was equally guilty along with those responsible for the sexual assault on her.He is reported to have said: “Only 5-6 people are not the culprits. The victim daughter is as guilty as her rapists... She should have called the culprits brothers and begged before them to stop... This could have saved her dignity and life. Can one hand clap? I don't think so.” He is also reported to have said that he was against harsher punishments for the accused in the Delhi rape victim case, as the law could be misused. To support his point, he is said to have stated that, “Dowry law in India is the biggest example of law being misused.