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Published: February 14th 2010
A liitle ashram news.
Osho Ashram turns into a fortress
Published on : Sunday 14 Feb 2010 15:04 - by IANS
Pune, Feb 14 : A day after a bomb ripped through an eatery killing nine people here, Pune's best known landmark, the Osho Ashram, turned into a veritable fortress.
Police commandos were deployed at the main gate of the sprawling ashram, which is hugely popular with foreigners and came up in 1974.
The Osho International Meditation Centre, as it is officially known, was founded by Osho Rajneesh. He taught at the centre until 1981 when he moved to the US.
The two adjoining houses and six acres of land form the nucleus of the present day Ashram that attracts a large number of foreigners every year. Most of them come from the West.
Police say that David Headley, a Pakistan-born American Islamist now in a Chicago prison, had visited the Osho Ashram in 2007-08 to see if it could be a possible target for Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba group.
The German Bakery, where a bomb concealed in a backpack went off Saturday evening killing nine people and injuring 57, is located close to theOsho Ashram. Many of its inmates regularly visit the eatery.
Amid fears that the Osho Ashram could also be bombed, police barred visitors from entering the complex.
The bomb site was also sealed off by the local police, the Riot Control Police and Maharashtra State Reserve Police.
No traffic was allowed on the road on which the German Bakery is located.
Copyright Indo Asian News
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Hi Sam Thanks for the news. We all heard here, pretty instantly it seems, and I have checked my friends in Poona. Was shocked and some of that has surfaced, probably more to come, so grateful to be here. Was recently there, and could have been me. Hope you are well and having fun! Love Yatro