Highlights
- CBI charged Giri, and his son Sandeep Tiwari with criminal conspiracy and abetment to suicide.
- Acharya Narendra Giri was found hanging by his disciples at the Baghambari Mutt on September 20.
- Earlier, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath recommended a CBI inquiry into the case.
The CBI on Saturday filed its charge sheet in the case of the death of Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad chairman Acharya Narendra Giri against his disciple Anand Giri and two others, officials said.
In its charge sheet filed in a court in Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, the CBI has charged Giri, priest of Allahabad's Bade Hanuman Temple Addhya Tiwari, and his son Sandeep Tiwari with criminal conspiracy and abetment to suicide, they said.
Acharya Narendra Giri, who was the president of the largest organization of sadhus in India, was found hanging by his disciples at the Baghambari Mutt in Allahabad on September 20.