A medical examination of the girl has confirmed that she had been raped, and the police has begin investigating the matter. She is a student, native to Madhya Pradesh, and is currently based in Vadodara. Her entire family had accepted Acharya Shantisagar as their guru recently in March 2017.

On the day of the incident, the guru had allegedly convinced the visiting family to stay back a little longer, and took the girl to another room on the pretext that he needed some help for the rituals where he raped her, according to the police. Out of fear, the girl only opened up about the rape to her parents after 11 days and filed an FIR on Saturday.