Officials inspect ashram run by Daati Maharaj

DELHI/Jodhpur: Amid rumours that about 600 female boarders of an ashram run by self-styled godman Daati Madan Maharaj has been missing, a team of the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment (DoSJE) and the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) today inspected the facility in Aalawas village in Rajasthan's Pali.

The team members spent about six hours in the ashram and checked records related to boarders of the Aashvasan Bal Gram Sansthan.

We found that total 709 girls are enrolled with the institution. But currently 236 were present," said a DoSJE official, adding that 54 more boarders reached there by evening as classes resume tomorrow after summer vacation. Rumours have been doing the rounds for the past 2-3 days that there were about 800 girls enrolled with the institution.