Asaram Bapu's cook shot dead
Akhil Gupta, 35, was shot dead by unknown miscreants on his way home. He is the second witness to be killed in the case after Amrut Prajapati, a former Asaram aide who was killed in June last year in Gujarat.
Police said Gupta was a cook and personal aide of the spiritual leader who has been in jail since August, 2013, for charges of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl.
Gupta had been questioned by the Gujarat Police in 2013 and had reportedly given a statement against the self-styled godman who runs over 400 ashrams across India.
The Surat-based sisters have accused Asaram and his son Narayan Sai of raping them when they stayed at his ashram in Ahmedabad between 1997 and 2006, reports said.
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