Shiva Shankar Baba, the Self-styled ‘godman’   has been arrested by Crime Branch CID (CB-CID) police in Ghaziabad, near New Delhi. Godman’s arrest was  followed by  series of complaints of sexual abuse against him, which made by a few alumni of a residential school he founded on Chennai’s outskirts.

Shiva Sankar Baba, who was reportedly admitted at a private hospital in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, disappeared after the CB-CID took up the investigation and launched a manhunt. He was arrested by a team of police personnel led by a DSP, CB-CID, on Wednesday. He will be brought to Chennai after obtaining a transit remand, said police sources.

Following sexual abuse complaints from alumni, the Mahabalipuram All Women Police station recently had registered three cases against him under various sections of the IPC, POCSO Act and Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act.

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