Overview

• Police raided his five-acre ashram near the Pragya Giri hills on June 25 after complaints that cannabis was being served to minors and tourists and recovered 1.993 kg of the drug.
• Tarun Kranti Agrawal alias Sonu has been booked under Section 20B of the NDPS Act and remanded to judicial custody for producing and possessing cannabis.
• Investigators confiscated his passport as they probe his claims of teaching yoga in over 100 countries and running multiple NGOs.
• Agrawal returned to Dongargarh this year after a decade teaching Kranti Yoga in Goa and began constructing the retreat two months ago.
• Rajnandgaon police say they suspect the ashram was used as a front for cannabis distribution and are examining potential links to wider narcotics networks.