Kerala’s revered god man arrested

After week-long dramatic scenes, the police have taken godman Santhosh Madhavan alias Amrutha Chaithanya into custody.

The godman was taken into police custody early this morning from outside the city limits, said the police. But the police have so far not confirmed his arrest officially.

Santhosh Madhavan is being questioned under a team led by assistant commissioner P M Varghese, in an undisclosed place in the city.

Meantime, the Kerala High Court will consider his anticipatory bail plea filed by the godman this afternoon.  The Kerala police have arrested state's one of the most revered god man Santosh Madhavan for being involved in an alleged fraud case.

The police is interrogating Madhavan but have refused to disclose the location.The god man was running for cover from the police ever since he was accused of fraud by a Dubai-based Indian woman.

The woman, Serafin Edwin, had accused him of cheating her with Rs 40 lakh in 2002. He was included in Interpol’s wanted list in 2004 for the fraud committed in the United Arab Emirates.

The police raided his 16-suite ashram in Kochi on Sunday and found pornographic CDs, foreign liquor, ganja and tiger skin. Interestingly, during the raid on Sunday, the police found a wedding invite of Madhavan from his ashram.

He got married to a girl from Palakkad last year.
Earlier, the Kochi police commissioner Manoj Abraham had said that they registered a case under the wild life protection act, which is a non-bailable offence and Madhavan can be arrested on these charges.

Santosh Madhavan, on his return from Dubai in 2002, had founded a trust called 'Shanthitheeram' and built a palatial ashram in Kochi. The ashram was used as a guesthouse to accommodate his clients, which he claims include politicians, film stars, policemen and businessmen.

Madhavan's high-profile lifestyle came crashing last week when a Malayalam newsmagazine reported that his name figured on the Interpol list on wanted persons.

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