India, June 28 -- A day after a woman accused Swami Pradiptananda, popularly known as Kartik Maharaj of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, of rape on the pretext of giving her a job, details of her complaint suggest that the abuse lasted at least a decade and involved people from the monk's ashram who forced the victim to undergo an abortion.

In her complaint, the woman has said that she met Kartik Maharaj in 2012 when he offered her a job at Chanak Adivasi Abasik Balika Vidyalaya, in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, where, she alleged, he raped her. HT has seen a copy of her complaint. The complainant has further alleged that she received a call from Kartik Maharaj on June 12, and he asked her to meet him on June 13 near Berhampore Correction...