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Puttur, Mar 19: Keerthika (24), wife of Giridhar Bhat from Kallare here, about whom a complaint of abduction had been lodged against David Denson from here and worked in Bengaluru sometime back, was produced at the court here on Wednesday March 18. The policemen, after getting information that Keerthika was living at Anbujyothi Ashram in Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu, had obtained search warrant from Puttur court and reached the Ashram. They had raided the Ashram, found Keerthika there, and brought her here.

Keerthika told the court that she was not willing to go with her husband. She wanted to live in the Ashram from where she was brought here. With her refusal to go back to her husband's family, a new legal issue surfaced.

Puttur town police inspector, B K Manjaiah, had led the said raid, based on a complaint filed by the husband of the woman that a person named David Denson had abducted his wife. After sometime, another complaint was filed on behalf of David Denson, alleging that he was kidnapped and assaulted by the complainant during his visit to the town to appear in the court.

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It is gathered that Giridhar Bhat, a doctor by profession, and Keerthika, an engineering graduate, had been in love with each other since their student days. After marriage, Keerthika worked in a software firm in Bengaluru. After some rumours spread about her, her husband's family made her to resign that job and come back here. However, reportedly, she fled from her home on September 11, 2014, with the help of Denson and one of his friends.

On Wednesday, when Keeerthika was produced in the court, the judge asked about her wish. Keerthika said that there was marital discord between her and her husband, and that her husband and mother-in-law were inflicting mental torture on her. She also discounted the allegations of her husband that she had undergone religious conversion, adding that she was never forced by anyone to change her religion.

She therefore, requested to be dropped off back in the Ashram from where she was brought here. The court accepted her request and asked police to send her back to the said Ashram. This development has given an interesting twist to the six-month-old case in which allegations of abduction, religious conversion, love etc had been levelled.

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People in Adilabad erupted in joy on Wednesday when the State government announced Ugadi Puraskaram for Kala Ashram founder Ravinder Sharma, popularly known as Guruji. The award could not have come at a more appropriate time as scores of people from different walks of life have started gathering at the Kala Ashram for the annual three-day Ugadi mitr milan being organised between March 20 and 22.

Recipient of the Kala Ratna award from Andhra Pradesh Government in 2012, Guruji deserves the award under the category of Kala Ashram as the place which he established in 1979 eventually emerged as a prime destination for those seeking in depth knowledge about traditional societies. He is a walking repository of knowledge on Indias traditional rural technologies, its social dynamics including the cohesion between different segments of the society, its economics, arts and culture, and speaks to audiences from across the country. The 62-year-old trained sculptor, acquired immense knowledge about different aspects of rural life by moving and interacting mostly with the artisan communities in a radius of about 20 km around Adilabad townThe Kala Ashram was actually established to serve as an asylum for destitute and ignored artisans but evolved in a knowledge centre in due course. It hosted some very important events connected with artisans like the Karigar Panchayat in 2008.

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