An Indian court on Wednesdayallowed disciples of a spiritual guru to preserve his body in a freezer, as they believe he is in a deep state of meditation and will return to life. <\/p>\n
Ashutosh Maharaj, founder of the multi-million dollar sect, Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan (Divine Light Awakening Mission), apparently died of a cardiac arrest in January 2014. <\/p>\n
But his followers insist he is in a deep spiritual state called samadhi and have controversially kept his body in a commercial freezer at his heavily guarded 100 acre ashram in the northern state of Punjab. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday,the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a three year old petition by Dalip Kumar Jha, who claims to be his son, and who wanted his father's body to cremate him as per Hindu rituals. <\/p>\n
Mr Jha's lawyer, S P Soi told AFP that it was unclear whether or not the court approved the sect's argument that Mr Maharaj was alive. <\/p>\n
\"But they dismissed our petition which is disappointing and we will challenge it in the Supreme Court,\" said Soi. <\/p>\n
The court while rejecting their plea set aside a 2014 judgement that had ordered his cremation after doctors confirmed him clinically dead. <\/p>\n
His disciples had challenged the court's cremation order saying he had simply drifted into a deeper form of meditation, something he did often in sub-zero Himalayan temperatures. <\/p>\n
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