A CID (Crime) team on Wednesday visited the Asaram Ashram gurukul and the houses of the two pupils in connection with their mysterious deaths last year. This comes three days after an FIR was lodged in the case.

The eight-member team headed by CID Deputy Superintendent of Police R K Patel recorded the statements of one of the victim’s father, Praful Vaghela and the gurukul’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Rajesh Sharma. They also made inquiries about seven people — Ashram sadhaks Pankaj Saxena, Yogesh Bhati, Vikas Khemka, Minketan Patra and Uday Sanghani, and Ashram administrators, Kaushik Vani and Ajay Shah.

A year-long investigation later, the CID had on Sunday booked the seven on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and under provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act. Patel said: “The aim of the visits was to verify the evidence and facts mentioned in the complaint.”

The semi-decomposed bodies of Dipesh Vaghela (10) and Abhishek Vaghela (11) were recovered from the Sabarmati riverbed on July 5, 2008, two days after they went missing from the gurukul. The Ahmedabad city police had on July 7 last year, registered a complaint of accidental death, believing the two had died by drowning. Investigations in the case were later transferred to the CID following public protest.