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Likely to record godwoman's statement on Friday: Mumbai police
Mumbai, Aug 10
Summons have been served on
self-styled godwoman Sukhwinder Kaur alias Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa
in connection with a dowry harassment case and other issues and her
statement is likely to be recorded on Friday, police said here on
Monday.
"The summons were served at her residence late Sunday.
Her statement is likely to be recorded on Friday," a Mumbai police
official told the media.
Radhe Maa, touring Aurangabad and Nanded in the past few days, returned to her Borivali home in north-west Mumbai on Sunday.
She
rubbished the dowry charges levelled against her by a woman from
Kandivali and said she had nothing to do with her family dispute.
In
her complaint last week, the 32-year-old woman alleged that Radhe Maa
instigated her husband and in-laws to demand dowry from her, though she
had given them jewellery worth over Rs.102 crore at the time of her
marriage.
She claimed Radhe Maa asked her in-laws, including her
chartered accountant husband, to make more dowry demands on her later
and caused "mental and physical torture".
Taking cognisance of
the complaint, police on Monday began recording the statements of at
least five persons named as accused by the complainant at Kandivali
police station.
The action follows registration of an FIR against
Radhe Maa and seven others, including the woman's in-laws, in the
matter, charging them under the Indian Penal Code and the Dowry
Prohibition Act.
Last week, activist lawyer Falguni Brahmbhatt
lodged a separate complaint in Borivali police station against Radhe Maa
for obscenity, running a business disguised as religion and misleading
the people.
Claiming to be a fan of actor and ex-porn star Sunny
Leone, Radhe Maa's pictures in short dresses and gyrating to Bollywood
tunes with her devotees during 'satsangs' (religious discourses) have
gone viral on the social media in the past few days.
Recently,
Radhe Maa, 50, shot into the limelight when she - along with a couple of
other godmen - was banned from going to Nashik for the ongoing Kumbh
mela and taking part in the 'shahi snan' (royal bath).
Born Sukhvinder Kaur, she hails from an affluent family of Gurdaspur and her father was a government servant in Punjab.
Educated
upto senior secondary level, she dropped out of school and got married
at the age of 18 to a businessman, Mohan Singh, of Hoshiarpur and the
couple has three children.
However, she renounced the world at
the age of 23 and was initiated as a 'sadhvi' by Mahant Ramdin Das 1008
of Paramhans Bagh Dera, in Hoshiarpur.
Since the past few years, Radhe Maa has made Borivali her home where a devotee donated a building to her for her religious work.