Self-styled ‘godman’ Shiva Shankar Baba, 72, has been remanded in judicial custody till July 1 after he was produced before the Mahila Court in Chengalpattu on Thursday. He was arrested by the Crime Branch CID (CB-CID) police in Delhi on Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing girls of a residential school he founded in the city’s outskirts.
The Mamallapuram All-Women police station (AWPS) last week registered three cases against him under various sections of the India Penal Code, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act, following complaints from the school’s alumni, and the Child Welfare Committee also initiated an action. After investigation was taken up by the CB-CID, Baba reportedly went missing on the pretext of going on a spiritual tour to north India.
When a team of CB-CID officers reached a hospital in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, where he was undergoing treatment, he disappeared from the…
