Overview
- Officers traced the 62-year-old to a hotel in Agra around 3:30 am and brought him to Delhi, where he was produced in court as police requested five days of custodial interrogation.
- At least 17 women from an EWS scholarship cohort at a Delhi management institute have accused him of unwanted contact, lewd messages, coercion using confiscated phones and original certificates, and surveillance through campus CCTV.
- Investigators froze nearly ₹8 crore across 18 bank accounts and 28 fixed deposits, and say ₹50–60 lakh was withdrawn after the FIR; probes cite a parallel trust allegedly used to divert institute and peetham funds.
- A Delhi court rejected his anticipatory bail on Friday in related cheating and forgery cases, with the judge noting the need for custodial questioning to map the alleged fraud chain.
- Police report fake UN- and BRICS-linked visiting cards, diplomatic-style plates, multiple identities and changed appearances to evade arrest, with prior molestation and fraud cases from 2009 and 2016 on record and seized NVRs/phones sent for forensic analysis.