{"id":4451,"date":"2015-03-06T00:12:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2015-03-06T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:12:26","slug":"cleric-persuades-400-men-to-cut-off-their-private-parts-to-get-closer-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4451","title":{"rendered":"Cleric Persuades 400 Men To Cut Off Their Private Parts To Get Closer To God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Indian-priest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4452\" alt=\"Indian priest\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Indian-priest.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>A popular religious leader in India, who has not less than\u00a050 million followers worldwide, has allegedly persuaded 400 men to cut off their private parts in order to get closer to God, the Central Bureau of Investigations said.<\/p>\n<p>47-year-old Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is facing charges of causing grievous bodily harm after being accused of persuading his followers to cut off their private parts.\u00a0According to the police investigation, Singh\u2019s followers cut off their private parts at a hospital run by him.<\/p>\n<p>Singh has previously been questioned over the murder of an investigative journalist and has also been accused of s*xual assault, but has never been charged.\u00a0Hans Raj Chauhan told police that he cut off his private parts because he thought he will be a social outcast if he refused to carry out the operation required by Singh.<\/p>\n<p>Singh told his followers that only those who are castrated, will be able to find God. Singh\u2019s estimated net worth is $40 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular religious leader in India, who has not less than\u00a050 million followers worldwide, has allegedly persuaded 400 men to cut off their private parts in order to get closer to God, the Central Bureau of Investigations said. 47-year-old Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is facing charges of causing grievous bodily harm after being accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Indian-priest.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-19N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}