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Pune: Two brothers were arrested by the Shirur police on Thursday for allegedly molesting two minor girls of a private ashram located in Shirur, about 70km from here.

The police registered a case late on Wednesday and arrested Abaji Chalak (43) and Babaji Chalak (72), both residents of Shirur on Thursday. Babaji Chalak is a well-known kirtankar in these parts. He performs at a famous Ganapati temple here where he is known as Chalak Maharaj.

The girls, in their statements to the police,described how they were sexually abused between June 2016 and May 2017 at the ashram where they learned to be kirtankars (the art of performing religious songs and discourses).

He was arrested just after he finished performing at the temple on Thursday morning, assistant inspector Ganesh Kshirsagar of Shirur police station told TOI.

Both were produced before a city court on Thursday afternoon and remanded in police custody till Friday.

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