The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday directed the Punjab government to perform the last rites of Self-styled godman and chief of Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan.
The court directed to constitute a committee under the district magistrate to look into the matter and asked DGP and chief secretary to monitor the situation. The court also said that religious sentiments of the followers should not be hurt.
 The court had earlier reserved its order on October 29, after arguments of all parties concerned in the case got over.
On January 29, sansthan doctors had declared Ashutosh alias Mahesh Kumar Jha clinically dead, after which the sansthan management had kept the body inside a deep freezer, stating that the spiritual head had gone into ‘samadhi’ (deep meditation).
One of the petitioners, Dalip Kumar Jha, had moved the high court in April, seeking the release of mortal remains of ‘his father’ to him for performing last rites and also a probe to ascertain the cause of his ‘mysterious death’. Another petitioner, Puran Singh, claiming himself to be the spiritual head’s former driver, had also approached the high court, seeking a CBI probe into the spiritual head’s suspicious death.
Meanwhile, kepping in mind the sensitivity of the case, security was beefed up at Nurmahal-based Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan( DJJS) on Sunday.