This, according to a lot of people I know, or don't know, is not exactly a shocker. Godmen in India come a dime a dozen, and ever day or the other there are incidents of them being involved in sex rackets or corruption or some such.
Starting with a 10-acre ashram, Asaram went on to acquire some 420 major or minor such institutions over a period of 40 or so years across the world. Before his arrest, he was raking in around Rs 400 crore or more annually. In the process, he also snagged some 20 million followers world wide.
Now that is no mean feat.
