Fed up of Sexual Abuse by Mathura Priest, 3 Boys Bludgeon Him to Death

By Ishita Mishra
Times of India
December 10, 2015

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AGRA: Parmeshwar Das, a mahant in Govardhan, Mathura, was gruesomely killed by three youths who told police they were tired of constant abuse from him. While two are in their early 20s, one is a minor.

Police said that one of the youths has already been awarded life imprisonment by a court in Panna (Madhya Pradesh) for killing a woman with axe in 2013.

Mathura senior superintendent of police Rakesh Singh said that the youth was absconding from Panna since the judge announced life sentence for him in 2014. He was living in the ashram in Govardhan for past several months.

"The mahant was found dead in his Akhil Bharitiya Kirar Ashram in Govardhan block of Mathura district on Tuesday. His face was smashed with a brick and later he was strangulated. We were clear that some insider is involved in the crime as no outsider was allowed inside the ashram during late hours. Our cops interrogated all the followers of the mahant and found discrepancies in the statement given by these three. We arrested them and later they confessed to the crime," the SSP added.

The senior cop claimed that the crime was not planned and the boys killed the priest in a fit of rage.

"The mahant used to sexually exploit his followers. Many others in the ashram too accepted this. The accused killed him in a fit of rage as they failed to resist the abuse," the SSP said.

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