Pontiff threatened ashram hostel girls into submission?

This statement to the police came from a survivor and is now a part of the charge sheet filed in the court against the pontiff

Bengaluru: The Chitradurgabased Murugha Math seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, booked for allegedly sexually assaulting girls in his ashram hostel, used to threaten them that they must follow his instructions for he said he has contacts in the administratione.  

This statement to the police came from a survivor and is now a part of the charge sheet filed in the court against the 64-year-old pontiff. It was also reported that a girl was murdered who went out to lodge a police complaint.  According to the survivor, she landed in the ashram after losing her parents; she has only a brother.

She said she lived with 150 girls in the hostel the warden of which was Rashmi, the go-between the girls and the seer. According to the complainant, the warden used to send those girls whose names he would write on a slip.vThe survivor said the seer stripped her and after getting drunk, raped her.

She said she kept begging him to spare her as she came from a poor family.  She claimed other girls too narrated the same story. The survivor specifically mentioned a case in which a girl went out to lodge a complaint. The pontiff and others raped and murdered her, she claimed. PTI