Chief Judicial Magistrate JN Thakkar had sent Narayan Sai to six days police custody while the police had demanded his remand for 14 days.

Self-styled godman Asaram's son Narayan Sai, accused of sexually assaulting a city-based woman at his ashram, was today taken to a civil hospital for a potency test in Surat.

Sai who was arrested three days ago after several weeks on the run was remanded in police custody till 11 December on Friday.

Chief Judicial Magistrate JN Thakkar had sent Narayan Sai to six days police custody while the police had demanded his remand for 14 days. His aide Kaushal Thakur alias Hanuman was also sent to police custody till 11 December while his another aide Ramesh Malhotra was remanded in police custody till 7 December.

Two sisters had lodged complaints against Sai and his father Asaram of rape, sexual assault, illegal confinement and other charges. Surat police had booked 40-year-old Sai under various sections including rape, unnatural sex, molestation, wrongful confinement, unlawful assembly, rioting armed with deadly weapon, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy of the IPC.

In her complaint, the younger of the two sisters had accused Sai of repeated sexual assaults between 2002 and 2005 when she was living at the Surat ashram. The elder sister, in her complaint against Asaram, had accused him of repeated sexual assaults between 1997 and 2006 during the time she was living at his ashram on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Asaram (72) is currently lodged in a Jodhpur jail after being arrested in September for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl at his Jodhpur ashram.

With PTI input