Panipar (Haryana): Self-styled spiritual leader Radhe Maa’s supporters on Sunday allegedly assaulted a TV journalist and tried to abduct him in a car. According to reports, the journalist had asked a question to Radhe Maa while she was at a Kanwar Shivir and it irked her supporters.  To prevent him further asking questions, her followers pulled him out, beat him up and tried to shove him into a vehicle.

Reports say Radhe Maa’s supporters took umbrage at the journalist Jitendra Sharma’s question of “why is that wherever you go a controversy erupts?” and stopped him posing further questions. As he objected to it, Sharma was then roughed up and forced to enter a vehicle.

As chaos prevailed, policemen at the venue intervened and contained the situation. The journalist was provided security and was later dropped at his residence by police officials.

A case has been registered against the attackers.

Radhe Maa’s brushes with the law

  • Sukhwinder Kaur alias Radhe Maa, has in the past attracted eyeballs for her glitzy pictures on social media

  • Earlier, she a Mumbai-based woman had approached the Bombay High Court allegeding that Kaur instigated her in- laws to harass her for dowry.

  • In 2015, a BJP MLA from Gujarat had demanded a probe against Kaur in connection with a case where seven members of a family committed suicide.

  • Radhe Maa was listed among 14 "fake spiritual leaders" by Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad, the apex body of the Hindu seers.