Ahmedabad, India - The role of a section of socio-religious movement Swadhyaya Parivar has again come under the police scanner after four of its associates were interrogated Friday in connection with an attack on a religious leader.
The quartet - Jitubhai Patel, Pramod Joshi, Indubhai Patel and Chandrakant Manilal Patel - were taken to state capital Gandhinagar Friday for a lie detector test, police said.
The possibility of the sect hiring tribals to attack Swami Satchitananad at his ashram at Dantali village in Anand district, 90 km from here, July 16 could not be ruled out, said Inspector General of Police (Ahmedabad Range) A.K. Sharma.
Four ashram officials were injured in the attack, which ended after the miscreants fled the spot when the swami came out and opened fire.
Probing the incident, police earlier looked at the possibility of the attackers being robbers. The swami, however, said the Swadhyaya Parivar could be behind the attack as he had criticised the sect, terming it a bunch of goons.
The criticism had come in the wake of the murder of the US-based NRI Pankaj Trivedi here last month.
Trivedi, a long-time member of the sect, had come to question the use of its funds by its trustees, and was helping fight a legal battle in this connection.