Ahmedabad: A married woman was allegedly raped by a Swaminarayan sect priest in a moving car at knife point in Junagadh in Gujarat, police said Monday. The accused Swami Anandswarup Dasji allegedly called the woman to meet him under the pretext of helping her to resolve a dispute with her husband, and raped her at knife point in the car on February 18, said a police official from
Junagadh, around 320 kms from here.

Dasji allegedly threatened the woman, who is in her thirties, to abduct her daughter if she approached police, he said. The driver of the car, Shyam Sundar Swami, allegedly helped the priest in committing the crime, the official said, adding that the driver was also named in the FIR lodged Sunday
evening. "In her complaint, the woman said she was separated from her husband and had approached the priest to seek his help in resolving her differences with her husband.