Our family considered the Kharat couple as gurus: Speaking further, Rupali Chakankar said, “While living in society, we consider someone as our guru. Our family considered the Kharat husband and wife couple as our guru. Sometimes, we would attend a program there, be it Mahashivratri, Guru Poornima, or the distribution of educational materials to students. We considered a person as our guru and on that occasion, our entire family would be present there to support only noble cause.”

The police should conduct a thorough and impartial investigation: The photos or videos that are constantly shown in the media are from a few years ago. Many people performed Padya Puja on the occasion of Guru Purnima, just as my husband did. 5-6 years ago, when we were in contact with the people we were in contact with, we had no idea about their life, actions, and behavior after 5-6 years. Today, none of us have any idea how the people we are with will behave in the future. So when I came to know about this incident, I was shocked. So I had initially tweeted that we have a relationship with this trust. But there was no reason to know anything about Kharat and his personal life. The police should conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into this. For this, today I met the Director General of Police. Then I met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Now I met Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar. Rupali Chakankar informed that she has demanded that this incident be investigated transparently.

Strict action should be taken against the accused: Rupali Chakankar said, “We trust some people, we have a spiritual faith. My entire family is a Warkari family, so our faith was spiritual and that is why we were connected to that temple. But the other side of it never came to us. We used to be there only for some time for programs. Therefore, whatever has happened is a very wrong and dirty act. Chakankar demanded that the police should conduct a thorough investigation and take strict action against the accused.”

Speaking further, Rupali Chakankar said, there is a journalist of a daily, he had given a news in his newspaper on 19.03.2025. This news reached our counselor. After that, the counselor sent him a letter on the 8th. In that letter, it is clearly stated that there are some scandalous things in your news. If you have any information in this regard, you should inform the commission in detail. The second letter is to the Superintendent of Police, to take action according to whatever information he has. Also, if any of us have any problem, we should go directly to the police and complain. After that, the local police told us that no complaint has been received, no complaint from any woman. After that, that journalist sent a letter that we have no evidence. I strongly condemn the news that has been running for the last two days.

Instructions for action on complaints received: Rupali Chakankar said, the second thing I want to show is that I received a mail from a girl on the 5th. In this mail, the girl had a complaint regarding a man who used to work in Kharat’s office. Kharat is not mentioned anywhere in it. Our letter went to the police immediately on the same day. I sent this letter myself. We instructed that whoever is involved should be investigated. After that, the police themselves sent a letter saying that we are taking action. We did not support anyone or any organization. Till then, Kharat’s name was not mentioned anywhere. After that, on the 17th, a letter from Tejashwi Satpute came and she said that we are taking action.

Will hold a press conference and send legal notices to those spreading false news: There are false news and stories. There are many photos of me with that person. But I am being soft-targeted only as a woman. This is very wrong. Rupali Chakankar indirectly targeted Sushma Andhare and Anjali Damania by saying that some people held a press conference and spread false news. My photos have been shown on the wrong date. Those photos are still on my social media, you can see them. We will send notices to these people within the framework of the law, we will take legal action against spreading false news, Chakankar has warned.