Tamil Nadu: Siva Sankar Baba, accused of sexual abuse, hospitalised

CHENNAI: Self-styled godman Siva Sankar Baba, the founder of Sushil Hari International Residential School in Kelambakkam arrested for sexually abusing some of his students, was on Friday admitted to Chengalpet Government Hospital. He was later shifted to Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital.
The CB-CID team probing the case also arrested Kelambakkam resident Sushmitha, an alumnus of the school who turned a devotee of Siva Sankar Baba, after inquiries revealed she had convinced some students into going to his bungalow.“Sushmitha was a college student when she brainwashed the school students into getting the Baba’s blessings,” said an officer. Sushmitha was later sent to jail. CB-CID superintendent of police C Vijayakumar and his team on Friday visited the bungalow where the alleged sexual offences were committed and seized computers, hard disks, a pen drive along with some CCTV camera footage. All of it was sent to the cybercrime wing for study.
The Mamallapuram all women police, based on three complaints, on June 12 booked Siva Sankar Baba and the case was transferred to the CB-CID on June13.
After it was found that the accused was in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on a pilgrimage, a team went there, but he managed to slip away from the hospital where he underwent an angioplasty. On Wednesday, he was nabbed at a lodge in Delhi’s Chittaranjan Park in Delhi and flown to Chennai.