Priest claims alleged assault victim ‘stripped for a blessing’

A Hindu priest accused of assaulting a man at a temple in north London claimed he when he found the victim in his room half naked the man said: ‘I’ve come to be blessed.’ Aksharprakash Dasji, 64, is accused of attacking the 40-year-old in the SKSST Hindu temple in Harrow on 16 December 2021. It is alleged that he touched the complainant’s penis and made him indulge in oral sex after meeting him at another temple in Bolton in the…