Cops use dhoti-clad decoy to hoodwink journalists

While Asaram was being escorted from a local court to jail after he was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days,the decoy a police van with a man clad in white dhoti,shawl and a towel covering his head successfully distracted mediapersons,who tirelessly chased the vehicle through the 3-kilometre drive. This gave police a safe passage to escort Asaram to the jail in a police bus.

However at the jails gate,some photojournalists saw through the plan and scaled the bus to capture Asarams image through a netted window of the bus.

Jodhpur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph on Sunday complained to the media about the frenzy. Joseph said the mediapersonss excitement to cover the news left some policemen injured when a police van overturned trying to save two motorcycle-borne journalists who came in their way during patrolling outside the RAC 1st Battalion,where Asaram was being interrogated on Sunday.