Four minor students of a Rs Gurukul' run by godman Nithyananda were produced before the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday, after their parents alleged that they had been held Rs hostage' by the police.
The Gurukul-cum-Ashram (a residential school) is situated at Hirapur village on the outskirts of the city.
As the habeas corpus petitions came up for hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Justice S R Brahmbhatt asked police to immediately produce the four students -- two boys and two girls.
The four teenage students were produced before the court in the evening.
A habeas corpus petition is filed to obtain a direction from the court to the authorities to produce someone who has gone missing or is suspected to have been held in captivity illegally.
The parents claimed that they were not allowed to meet their children by the Ahmedabad district police, who are probing a complaint filed by another parent that his two daughters were held captive by the Ashram authorities. The petitioners alleged that their children had been "kept like hostages in the Gurukul" by the police who are investigating the case of missing girls.
