List of 18 MURDERS by Sant Shri Asaram Ji Bapu in ashram List of Murders In Asaram bapu ashram

In Virngham ashram which is apx. 1 hour from Ahmedabad sadhak named ZANDU (real name Narender, as asaram changes names in is cult), who came from MP. 2yrs ago on Sunday was murdered. He was sanchalak of Virangham ashram. No FIR about the murder was ever written, after murdering criminals of asaram called asaram that Zandu is dead now what do with dead body, then asaram told them to NIPTA lo mamla. Bidhisa was there. Asaram was in his Ahmedabad ashram.

Amor Bhai (Pile Vastra wala, there is another Amor also but this is the one who was given yellow clothes to wear) about 7 yrs ago his age was around 35 at that time Near Surat there is an ashram, he was sanchalak. He saw asaram in sexual exploitation and he didn’t wanted to be in ashram. Asaram told sadhaks to beat him brutally that he was dead. Asaram himself got his ritual done in Ahmedabad ashram itself, & in front of sadhaks he said he was stealing from ashram & now he couldn’t bear the pain of stealing so did suicide. Vanzara helped him to rush up the murder case. Body was given fire ritual and body finished. NO FIR, NO complaint. But there are over 37 witnesses who saw this murder.

Naresh Murder age 10-11yrs.- Ahmedabad – They were two bothers from mujaffurnagar, their Mother / Father started living in ashram & at that time asaram had no gurukul to brainwash so kids used to go outside to study in school. This story is apx. 10 yrs ago in Ahmedabad Naresh was murdered in ashram but ashram said he did suicide. 10 yrs old kid did suicide ? why ? No police complaint? No FIR ? Asaram ashram did fire ritual of the body. Witnesses are out of his ashram & some are still there. story can be confirmed with anyone who is associated with Ahmedabad ashram from 10 yrs.

Naresh Trivedi - Asaram used to call him CID as he was used to give information about other ashram inmates to asaram. He used to work as angad sewak, & used to read books for asaram so asaram can raata maro those things to speak in his pravachans. The day he was murdered asaram told ashram wasi there in Rishikesh that he has drowned in gunga river. nadi mein doob kar mar gaya hai.

Vashi -From Bombay – his sister still lives in ashram and under illusion of asaram. He used to work in rishi Prasad in day & in night he was security man of ashram. murdered in ashram because he was protesting his sisters misuse 7 sexual exploitation but after murdering Asaram said nadi mein doob kar mar gaya. mari gaya to zinda kar do kya ?

Balalk das maharaj – Karol bagh ashram – he used to run this ashram & asaram promised him he will give him 5 lakh if gives this ashram to him. he agreed but Asaram moved in and before asaram could pay him out asaram ordered his murder through poison. Goverdhan & Ram bhai jattadhari, Ashok bhai bhandari (vaid) (he is asaram in chetna ke swar) ne zahar de kar maar diya & asaram took over the forest land where ashram was there, then later asaram expanded the coverage of land by himself as whole land is of forest department of government & no construction can be done but asaram still has the possession of the land.

Variayo – Rajokri ashram – He came from Orrisa and was working to construct rajokri ashram in 2002 one night snake had bitten him. ashram people had called Kaka mani in Karol bagh that snake had bitten him 7 we need to take him to hospital. Kaka mani said we will look into this in the morning, no need to worry he is chotta jaati ka aadmi. In the morning ashram people took him to hospital where he was declared dead, Narayan sai in Karol bagh ashram touched the body and said main isko zinda kar sakta hoon, par agar yeh zindda ho gaya to sukhi nahin rahega saari zindagi, zinda karoon kya ? People around him said no. They then took the dead body for fire ritual, narayan sai asaram bapu’s son gave kandha for a minute & kaka mani took the body to cremation ground. They got rid of the body easily. poor parents had came from Orrisa but were no even offered water in ashram & they were told your son ne sadgadhi prapt kar li hai kyonki narayan sai ne kandha diya hai usko.

Ahilya AYARI – Durbhungha – bihar – narayan sai told village people that he can make any one bring to life even though if he dead with sanke bit. village people came & told him we have our daughter dead two days ago and we have buried the child in ground can you make her alive ? narayan said yes bring the dead body to me. whole village went back but half of village people didn’t came under superstition so they stopped parents to take the dead body from ground. parents came back to naryan sai ashram & told him to do his pooja in cremation ground itself so come with them. Narayan sai got scared as he knew he can’t bring that dead girl to life because he wanted that child to bring to ashram o he can eat the flesh, but how will he do it there in front of people. so he sent one another tantrik from ashram with pipal ki leaves. But in cremation ground dead body was taken out tantrik of asaram & narayan put people leaves in nose & ear nothing happened. Villagers got agitated they went back to ashram to kill narayan for playing with their feelings but narayan fled to Nepal that night. this story was published in local news paper of Durbhungha. It just shows asaram & narayan have pattern of murders & then playing with dead bodies. Both have no feelings for dead alive people. This is why parents of so many people are victims who are asking for their son & daughter back from his ashram.

Jaswant singh s/o Pratap singh – Rajokri delhi. Three teenagers were in ashram and ashram people got hold of them thinking they are here to steal. They tied them up upside down on tree to all three, & were beating them, in the mean time asaram came to give his speech, all who were beating went there and forgot that kids are still hanging on tree. By the time they came back one was dead. they threatend the two and told them to run away. Then dead body was taken to kapoor’s warehouse in najafgarh. From there after two day the dead body was taken to haridwaar in ashram, cut in pieces then put in bag then thrown in gunga. Police still can’t find body. eventhoguh 6 people were caught they admitted in their bayan yes the jaswant is dead, but his motorcycle was planted at new delhi rly station and declared he has gone outside of delhi. Pratap ji still doesn’t know his son is dead, it’s hard for us to reveal to him. so please atleast inform him. He is still hoping for the son to be back from asaram ashram or facts to be revealed to him.

Chindwara – two kids murdered – Shadow coverup of case by parents under the influnece of asaram.

Ahmedabad – Abhisheikh, Deepesh Vaghela – Two cousins murdered of Vaghela – details will come soon.

From couple of years ago asaram is brainwashing educated people & thier parents come up with legal cases against asaram so to protect himself Asaram has made a contract paper it is called  ajjevan daan paper which he gets signed from brainwashed fanatics once they are brainwashed & are manipulated to live in ashram. it says now they ar giving thier life to asaram. HUMM  think about it.  what will you do if your own family member or son gets involved with asaram.

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Cult & Controversy: the story of Asaram ashram

For the phenomenally influential religious guru, Asaram Bapu, his 37-year-long spiritual career had never been a cakewalk and the four mysterious deaths in his ashramss here and in Madhya Pradesh and the public ire he has been courting are only the latest that he hopes to shrug off.
His spiritual domain is spread across 300 ashrams throughout India, as also in the US, with lakhs of his followers and admirers flooding his commune with funds. Sixty-seven-year-old Bapu has even delivered a speech at the parliament of world religions.

Few controversies connected with his ashrams have invited media attention the way the deaths of four children in his two ashrams — in Ahmedabad and Chhindwara — did in just one month. His ashram, in both the cases, is facing serious problems, with investigators finally getting down to grilling inmates of the ashrams in connection with the deaths.
Asaram Bapu may not have had to look back ever since he set up his first kutia or hutment in Motera village here in 1971, but the path had all along been strewn with scandals.
Sindh-born Asaram, who had migrated to Ahmedabad with his parents during Partition, is facing about dozen-odd cases at different places — all of them pertaining to alleged land grabbing by his Sant Asaram Bapu Trust. One of the villagers in Motera, Ashok Thakore, has moved the court to get back five acres of his family’s land allegedly grabbed by the ashram. According to Thakore, the land is situated adjoining the ashram and was used for erecting tents on the Guru Purnima day. Permission to this effect was given by his father to the ashram. After his father’s death, the ashram grabbed it by saying that Thakore’s father had ‘gifted’ it to the ashram. However, the ashram has not been able to substantiate its claim with proofs.
In another case, Anil Vyas, a farmer from Jehangirpura village near Surat, where the ashram is facing several allegations of land grabbing, is fighting a prolonged battle for recovery of his 34,400 square metres of prime land from the ashram. According to Vyas, despite the fact that the ashram’s claim over the land was challenged in the court, the state Government regularised the unauthorised encroachment on January 24, 1997. However, the Gujarat High Court on December 8, 2006, held the regularisation illegal and decreed in favour of the farmer. The Ashram then appealed to the Division Bench against the order.
A Delhi-based widow, Sudarshan Kumari, is also fighting a legal battle against Asaram Bapu whose Trust, she alleges, had fraudulently got some papers signed by her. The paper later turned out to be a ‘gift deed’ to the ashram. The documents say that she has gifted the ground floor of her house in Rajouri Garden, New Delhi, to the ashram. According to her complaint, on July 6, 2000, on the pretext of taking her to Asaram satsang, she was taken to the office of Sub Registrar in Janakpuri, New Delhi. One of the inmates of the ashram, identified as Mani Kaka, hypnotised her and made her sign a number of documents, without allowing her to go through the content. The other person who signed the papers there, according to her, was Narayan Swamy, son of Asaram Bapu. She came to know about the gift deed when officials from the Municipal Committee of Delhi came to confirm it.
The ashram authorities at Rajokri village, near Gurgaon, have allegedly forged documents pertaining to the registration of the ashram. Bhagwani Devi, a resident of Rajokri, has also approached the Delhi High Court levelling allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Rajokri ashram.
Even Government agencies have levelled allegations of land grabbing against Asaram’s Trust. A few months ago, the Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts (BSBRT) had served a notice to the Trust’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, asking it to vacate a land belonging to BSBRT, worth Rs 80 crore. And in April 2007, a retired judge of the Patna High Court had filed a criminal complaint in Kadamkuan police station, Patna, alleging grabbing of his land by Asaram Bapu and others.
In Ratlam, Asaram’s Trust had to vacate a piece of land after a prolonged litigation. In January 2007, power theft amounting to Rs 4.7 lakh was detected from his Rajkot ashram.
Despite all these cases and allegations, Asaram Bapu’s popularity is on the rise — particularly among the ruling party politicians in the state. “It is due to the clout of Asaram that no criminal case was registered against any of his ashram-members nor was anyone from the ashram arrested after the two boys of his gurukuls died under mysterious circumstances,” said a rebel BJP leader, requesting anonymity.
The popularity of Asaram can be gauged from the fact that his photographs can be spotted in every government office across the state and even state transport corporation’s buses display his photos and messages.
When the Gujarat Government in 2005 decided to rejuvenate the Saraswati river by filling long tracts of land considered to be the vestiges of the mythical river at Sidhpur town in Mehsana district, Asaram Bapu was the chief guest at the launch of the project. Though there are other religious leaders in the state, inviting him to such a high-profile programme as the chief guest explains the popularity of the man among the ruling party.
Again, when the state Government temporarily launched Vande Gujarat TV channel, telecasting its developmental achievements on the eve of December 2007 Assembly polls, the channel regularly carried footages of Asaram Bapu.
This explains the clout of Asaram Bapu whose religious movement has taken the shape of a cult, having followers in every section of the society. With his influence growing, there are many politicians, including Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, visiting his ashram regularly.



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His efforts have resulted in transforming India from a milk deficient and milk starved nation to become the largest producer of milk in the world. His famous expression is “I am in the business of empowerment. Milk is just a tool in that”.

Dr Kurian’s story of entry into milk and cooperative sector and his Anand saga is very well documented. His journey from being a young technology man having reluctantly come to the interiors of Gujarat to become a messiah of millions of villagers is truly inspiring.
I am personally amazed and impressed by the fact that how a combination of true co-operator and an open minded technocrat having a common desire to empower people can achieve the unbelievable.
For Shri Tribhovandas Kishibhai Patel, a cooperative leader and a true Gandhian with a strong desire to improve lives of villagers in Gujarat through cooperatives and for Dr.Kurian, then a young technocrat finding himself to be in a nondescript place called Anand, coming together has been a game changer, not only for themselves, but for the State and the Country.
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“White Revolution” by the most famous “Milkman” known in history is a story that will make every Indian proud.
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Dr.Kurian will be remembered by posterity as a person who not only believed in empowerment as instrument for growth and well-being of masses, but he also emphatically proved its efficacy by his deeds. The structures and systems he has created stand testimony of his dedication and his conviction.
May the Soul of this tireless crusader for empowerment rest in peace and let us all the co-operators rededicate ourselves to the cause of economic empowerment of the less privileged brothers and sisters through cooperatives.

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The airline started imposing new terms Wednesday night

American Airlines pilots are feeling the painful cuts promised by the company in the on-going bankruptcy battle.

The airline started imposing new terms Wednesday night.

The pilots knew the cuts would be come, but weren’t sure how soon it would happen.  The AA pilots are the only work group that hasn’t reached a new contract agreement with the airline. AA just approved deals with flight attendants and transport workers on Wednesday.

The judge gave American permission last week to throw out the pilots' old contract and impose its own working terms after pilots rejected a company offer.

The company warned it would begin implementing deep cuts on pilots.  AA announced it will reduce retirement benefits and ease restrictions on outsourcing of flying to other airlines as it attempts a turnaround under bankruptcy protection.

The judge gave AA permission last week to throw out the pilots' old contract and impose its own working terms after pilots rejected a company offer.

American hopes to cut annual labor spending by about $1 billion with the changes.

After canceling the pilots' contract, the company said it plans to relax limits this month on revenue-sharing deals with other airlines -- so-called code-sharing.  The move is designed to boost revenue without adding flights. American will also gain more flexibility to shift flying to regional airlines.

Earlier Wednesday, AA announced a four-year deal to outsource some of its regional flying to SkyWest Inc. SkyWest will handle some flying currently performed by American Eagle, American's regional affiliate, in Los Angeles and Dallas.

American will increase the maximum work hours for pilots starting in November. And it will freeze the pilots' defined-benefit pension plan while terminating a supplemental retirement plan in November.

The new contracts ratified by other workers will let American reduce jobs for flight attendants and ground workers and close a maintenance hub in Fort Worth.  Pensions for workers other than pilots will be frozen but not terminated, and they will instead get an improved profit-sharing plan. Retiree health benefits for current employees will be reduced.

Thomas Horton, the CEO of parent AMR Corp., said he still hopes for a voluntary agreement with pilots but that the company needed to begin making "changes that are necessary for our restructuring."  Horton said in a letter to employees that other airlines used bankruptcy to get stronger and cut costs, and that American is becoming more competitive by renegotiating leases and labor contracts.

The pilots say they’re willing to talk, “We have to have a contract in place in order to successfully emerge out of bankruptcy, so at some point we have to sit down with the corporation and hash this thing out.  But at this point they simply have not invited us back to the bargaining table,”; says Tom Hoban of the Allied Pilots Association.

In the meantime, pilots are threatening a strike.  The ballots are out right now for members to vote whether to strike.  The airlines says a strike is illegal, while the company is going through the bankruptcy process.

AMR and American filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. U.S. Airways Group Inc. is trying to force a merger, but AMR has resisted overtures from its smaller rival.


American Airlines returns to court on Tuesday in a contentious fight to throw out its contract with pilots and impose cuts -- a move the pilots say would be "professional Armageddon" but the airline argues is necessary to return to profitability.

The hearing, in U.S. bankruptcy court in New York, comes after the airline struck concessionary deals with its two other major labor groups, which represent flight attendants and ground workers.

If Judge Sean Lane rejects the pilots' contract, American said it would impose cuts already outlined in a "term sheet," a detailed list of proposals that pilots rejected.

"We will begin to implement the terms from the term sheet that will enable us to achieve our necessary cost savings and continue moving forward toward a successful restructuring," AA spokesman Bruce Hicks said in a written statement.

The Allied Pilots Association said the cuts would be deep, increasing the number of hours pilots  work and stopping some retirement benefits, leading to fewer jobs and the slashing of other benefits.

"It's professional Armageddon and doesn't bode well for mending the relationship with this management team going forward," said APA spokesman Tom Hoban.

Two weeks ago, Lane ruled American had shown that significant changes were needed in its labor contracts but declined to scrap the pilots' deal, saying the airline had overreached on the issues of furloughs and outsourcing.

Hicks said American has now addressed the judge's concerns, leaving the current contract terms in place on furloughs and proposing less code-sharing -- deals with other airlines that essentially outsource jobs.

Fort Worth-based American is asking the judge to limit Tuesday's hearing to those two issues.

Meanwhile, American continues talking with Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways about a possible merger.

Pilots say they would fare better if US Airways were to take over American.

"We have an agreement with US Air. We have since April," Hoban said. "U.S. Airways wants to run an airline."

In the next few months, US Airways is expected to present its own reorganization plan of how a combined airline would benefit employees, customers and creditors.

On Friday, British Airways confirmed it also had signed a non-disclosure agreement to engage in merger talks with American, but those negotiations may be complicated by a law restricting foreigners from owning more than 25 percent of a U.S. airline.

Tuesday's hearing is expected to last just several hours. The judge would most likely announce his decision in the following few days.

Dallas attorney Mark Ralston, a bankruptcy expert, said he expects American to win.

"I think the judge is going to accept the modifications and reject the agreement," he said.

Ralston noted that the imposed cuts would be temporary and the airline and the pilots will ultimately have to negotiate a new contract, a process complicated by the tense relationship between both sides.

"Let's face it -- American and its labor have had a contentious relationship for a long time," he said.

Leaders of the pilots' union are making preparations to call a strike vote if the airline implements cuts but acknowledge it would be difficult to strike while the company remains in bankrupcty.

AA to cut 839 Tulsa shop jobs Avionics Intelligence American executives said the company must cut 10,400 jobs and reduce labor costs by $1.06 billion a year to emerge from bankruptcy and compete successfully in the airline industry. Among additional cost-saving measures, American proposes to outsource ... See all stories on this topic »

AMR Wins Court Approval of Cost-Cutting Labor Contracts Bloomberg Excluding any cuts involving pilots, American has won concessions from unions that will shrink the number of job cuts, to 7,625 from a planned 10,975. Savings from unions will be as much as $900 million a year and as much as $1.1 billion when nonunion ... See all stories on this topic »

American Airlines Pilots Feel Painful Cuts NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth American Airlines pilots are feeling the painful cuts promised by the company in the on-going bankruptcy battle. The airline started imposing new terms Wednesday night. The pilots knew thecuts would be come, but weren't sure how soon it would happen. See all stories on this topic »

Layoffs at American Airlines could affect nearby businesses kjrh.com Posted: 09/12/2012. Last Updated: 9 hours and 30 minutes ago. UPDATE: A bankruptcy judge approved a contract Wednesday between American Airlines' parent company and the Transport Workers Union, effectively cutting hundreds of jobs in Tulsa. --------- ... See all stories on this topic »