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
The police raided his 16-suite ashram in
He got married to a girl from Palakkad last year.
Earlier, the
Santosh Madhavan, on his return from
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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