The self-styled ‘godman’ accused of sexually harassing 17 women at an ashram in Delhi, has been arrested in Agra. Ostensibly the ‘director’ of a privately-run management institute, the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management in Delhi’s posh Vasant Kunj area, Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati, faces complaints ranging from using abusive language, sending lewd text messages to women, and forced physical contact.
Swami Chaitanyananda Saraswati alias Partha Sarathy is accused of harassing students pursuing post-graduate management diploma courses with scholarship in the economically weaker sections (EWS) category.
The complainants, students, have claimed that some wardens working at the management institute had introduced them to the Baba. He used to call the students to his room, and lure them with free foreign trips, revealed sleazy chats with the victims.
Delhi Baba had secretly installed cameras in the women’s hostel.
After the accusations surfaced earlier this week, the ashram administration expelled Chaitanyananda from his post. The ashram unit that the accused headed in Delhi is a branch of a prominent ashram in South India, the Dakshinamnaya Sri Sharada Peetha in Sringeri. The religious body called Chaitanyananda’s actions “inappropriate”
