The Delhi High Court yesterday directed the CBI to trace the whereabouts of the founder and spiritual head of a north Delhi-based ashram, being probed by the agency for allegedly confining women and girls like "animals in a cage". A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar said Virender Dev Dixit, the founder of the Adhyatmik Vishwa Vidyalaya in North Delhi's Rohini area, to be present before it on January 4, the next date of hearing.

Police personnel take away girls rescued from the Spiritual University at Rohini in New Delhi . Pic/PTI