Justice (retired) D K Trivedi Commission that was constituted by the state government to probe into the circumstances under which two minor students from the Asaram ashram-run gurukul in Motera were found dead in the Sabarmati riverbed submitted its report to the Home Department on Wednesday. This was stated by a commission official. The commission had been granted several extensions,the last of which was to expire on July 31. Cousins Dipesh Vaghela (10) and Abhishek Vaghela (11) went missing from the gurukul,a residential school,on July 3,2008 under mysterious circumstances. On July 5,2008,the mutilated bodies of the two boys were found in the riverbed near the ashram. Subsequently,there was widespread public agitation against the ashram,with allegations that their death was linked to black magic practised in the ashram. On July 21,2008,the state government appointed the commission. The CID had in 2009 registered a case against seven followers of Asaram Bapu in the case under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC. The latter moved the High Court which directed the CID to book them under section 304(A) (causing death by negligence),a relatively minor offence,instead. Ahmedabad sessions court is likely to frame charges against the seven accused on August 8. In December 2012,after evading repeated summons,Asaram had deposed before the Commission where he termed allegations against him as a conspiracy to malign his ashram and Hindu religion.
